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Combating Fentanyl
DHS is on the frontlines fighting against cartels and Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) that are flooding our communities with illicit synthetic drugs, like fentanyl.
Fiscal Year 2024 Year to Date Highlights:
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Data applies to October 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024.
DHS, through its component agencies U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and in coordination with Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) and the Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), has stopped more illicit fentanyl and arrested more individuals for fentanyl-related crimes in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 than in the previous five years combined. We are doing this through enforcement actions, including seizures of fentanyl and precursor chemicals, along with stopping southbound guns and money, and supporting prosecutions to prevent future illicit acts.
DHS and its components are focused on enforcement actions, partnerships, technologies, and capacity-building in four areas:
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DHS is leading the federal effort to combat fentanyl internationally, through information-sharing, multinational enforcement operations, and global cooperation and partnerships.
Recent Efforts
In April 2024, CBP launched
Operation Plaza Spike
to target plaza bosses and cartels that facilitate the flow of fentanyl and its precursors. In July 2024, CBP expanded the operation to El Paso and Juarez.
In June 2024, HSI indicted 47 alleged members of an Imperial Valley-based, Sinaloa Cartel-linked fentanyl distribution network; and in July, HSI helped execute the arrest on U.S. soil of the de facto head of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Under President Biden’s leadership, the U.S. has stepped up counternarcotics cooperation with key government partners, including
China
,
India
,
Mexico, and Canada
– and launched the Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats, which unites more than 140 countries in the fight against drug trafficking cartels and illicit finance.
DHS participates in the National Security Council-led Counternarcotics Working Group with China to disrupt the manufacture and flow of illicit synthetic drugs, delivering on the commitments made during President Biden’s meeting with President Xi in November 2023.
DHS also contributes to the Trilateral Fentanyl Committee with the Governments of Mexico and Canada.
HSI partners with vetted foreign law enforcement officials and prosecutors in Transnational Criminal Investigative Units (TCIUs), which support investigations and prosecutions abroad. HSI has established 16 TCIUs worldwide. In FY 2023, efforts by the Mexico TCIU resulted in the seizure of 64,138 pounds of precursor chemicals and more than 59 criminal arrests.
We are working with shippers and private industry to provide more data to CBP. The
Section 321 Data Pilot
helps us work more closely with non-traditional trade partners to identify and interdict illicit shipments in small packages, without inhibiting cross-border e-commerce.
DHS has partnered with countries like the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, France as well as New Zealand and Australia in addition to Europol and Interpol to share information and intelligence to disrupt illicit movement of precursor chemicals.
DHS participates in World Customs Organization (WCO) meetings to advocate for the issuance of global customs policy standards and practices relating to synthetic drugs, consistent with those established by and in conjunction with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and/or the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).
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DHS personnel is on the front lines to detect and prevent fentanyl and its precursor chemicals from flowing into our country.
More than 90% of interdicted fentanyl is stopped at Ports of Entry (POEs), where cartels attempt to smuggle it primarily in vehicles driven by U.S. citizens. CBP and HSI throughout the past two years have run operations that mobilized hundreds of personnel – CBP officers, special agents, import specialists, and intelligence analysts – through surges and deployments at Southwest Border POEs, airports, express consignment facilities, international mail facilities, container stations, and warehouses across the country.
Launched in October 2023, in Southern California,
Operation Apollo
is a CBP counter-fentanyl operation that disrupts drug and chemical supplies, collects and shares intelligence, and leverages valuable state and local law enforcement partnerships. Operation Apollo expanded into Arizona in April 2024. In July, CBP announced Operation Apollo X to expand that kind of collaboration to El Paso, Texas.
Other recent operations include:
Operation Blue Lotus
, launched in March 2023, surged CBP and HSI resources to Southwest Border POEs and worked with state, local, Tribal, and territorial partners to expose networks.
Operation Four Horsemen
was a complementary United States Border Patrol (USBP) operation to stop fentanyl between POEs and at checkpoints near the border. As a result of these two operations, DHS seized nearly 10,000 pounds of fentanyl, and more than 10,000 pounds of other narcotics like cocaine and methamphetamines.
Operation Artemis
, a collaboration between CBP and HSI, targeted the illicit fentanyl supply chain, leveraging multidisciplined interagency "jump teams" at strategic locations. The four months Operation Artemis led to over 900 seizures, including over 13,000 pounds of fentanyl precursor chemicals.
Operation Rolling Wave
surged inbound inspections at Southwest Border checkpoints, covering every sector and employing predictive analysis and intelligence sharing.
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DHS is partnering with federal, state, and local stakeholders to share information and track and disrupt fentanyl networks within our communities. In addition to collaborations like those described in Operation Apollo above, DHS works with state, local, territorial, and tribal partners in a variety of ways:
DHS is a department of partnerships, and sharing information with state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement and community partners is fundamental to our efforts. State, local, tribal, territorial, and international law enforcement are also in integral part of the success of DHS task forces, most significantly HSI’s Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST). The primary mission of HSI’s BEST is to combat emerging and existing TCOs by employing the full range of federal, state, local, tribal, and international law enforcement authorities and resources in the fight to identify, investigate, disrupt, and dismantle these organizations at every level of operation. BESTs eliminate the barriers between federal and local investigations (access to both federal and state prosecutors) and close the gap with international partners in multinational criminal investigations.
State, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement also support efforts to disrupt TCOs by nominating individuals to the Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) watchlist through DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A). The TOC watchlist, maintained by the FBI, is a list of individuals known or reasonably suspected to be involved in transnational organized crime.
Every year, DHS provides a significant level of support through preparedness grants to help state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, nonprofit agencies, and the private sector. Among those grants, Operation Stonegarden provides tens of millions of dollars to enhance cooperation among law enforcement agencies to jointly enhance security along the United States land and water borders. In the last four fiscal years, DHS has provided on average nearly $90 million per year to community partners through Operation Stonegarden.
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DHS is working on developing new technology to support better detection and apprehension of synthetic drugs and their precursors.
Non-Intrusive Inspection:
We are dramatically expanding non-intrusive inspection (NII) technology at our southwest border to screen and detect not only drugs, but also currency, guns, ammunition, and illegal merchandise, as well as people being smuggled or trafficked into the country, while minimally impacting the flow of legitimate travel and commerce. By installing 123 new large-scale scanners at multiple POEs along the southwest border, CBP will increase its inspection capacity of passenger vehicles from two percent to 40 percent, and of cargo vehicles from 17 percent to 70 percent.
Forward Operating Laboratories:
CBP is operating 16 Forward Operating Laboratories to provide onsite, rapid testing for fentanyl to frontline personnel. A process that once would have taken weeks now takes seconds for quicker law enforcement actions, prosecutions, and intelligence collection.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Ports of Entry:
CBP is innovating with the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence at our POEs. This year alone, machine learning models that help CBP Officers determine which suspicious vehicles and passengers to refer to secondary screening have led to 240 seizures, which include thousands of pounds of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl.
HSI Strategic Network Dismantlement Project:
HSI is using Artificial Intelligence to illuminate fentanyl networks, known and unknown to authorities, operating throughout the U.S. and abroad. The HSI Strategic Network Dismantlement Project partners data engineers and data scientists with HSI investigators who leverage the HSI-owned RAVEN platform to analyze raw data, derive meaningful investigative insights, and enable disruptions of the global fentanyl supply chain.
HSI Innovation Lab
: HSI is utilizing the HSI Innovation Lab to provide data analytics and cutting-edge technologies (machine learning and artificial intelligence) to combat fentanyl.
Despite our progress, our efforts require action from Congress. This Administration is seeking legislation in Congress to increase penalties on those who bring deadly drugs into our communities and close loopholes that drug traffickers exploit. The "
Detect and Defeat
" Counter-Fentanyl legislative proposal would give border officials the tools they need to more effectively track and target the millions of small-dollar shipments that cross our borders – closing a loophole that drug traffickers exploit.
April 15, 2026:
San Diego CBP Field Office Seizes Over $14 Million in Narcotics in March
| CBP.gov
March 31, 2026:
CBP Officers Seize Fentanyl, Heroin at San Ysidro Port of Entry
| CBP.gov
March 23, 2026:
CBP Officers Seize $2.2 Million in Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl at Del Rio Port of Entry
| CBP.gov
March 19, 2026:
CBP Seizes Cocaine, Fentanyl, and Methamphetamine at Paso del Norte
| CBP.gov
March 15, 2026:
Washington Man Sentenced to 20 Years Following HSI Investigation Into Commercial Pill Press Operation
| ICE.gov
January 22, 2026:
CBP Seizes More Than $1.2 Million in Assorted Narcotics at Anzalduas International Bridge
| CBP.gov
January 22, 2026:
San Diego Ports Seize Nearly 33,000 Pounds of Dangerous Narcotics Worth $111 Million
| CBP.gov
December 29, 2025:
Philadelphia CBP Officers Intercept Six More Dangerous Ketamine Smuggling Attempts from Europe
| CBP.gov
December 1, 2025:
ICE Philadelphia Arrests Salvadoran Criminal Alien Convicted of Child Cruelty, Intent to Deliver Fentanyl, Attempted Robbery and Attempted Money Laundering
| ICE.gov
November 24, 2025:
Border Patrol Agents Find Deadly Cocktail of Narcotics in Booster Seats
| CBP.gov
November 19, 2025:
San Diego Sector Border Patrol Stops Freeway Fentanyl Smuggler
| CBP.gov
November 6, 2025:
CBP Seizes 263 Kilos of Narcotics at Various El Paso Ports of Entry
| CBP.gov
September 30, 2025:
Coast Guard Detains 4 Mexican Fishermen, Seizes 450 Pounds of Illegally Caught Fish Off Texas Coast
| USCIS.gov
September 23, 2025:
CBP Officers Seize Over $3.7 Million in Hard Narcotics at Laredo Port of Entry
| CBP.gov
August 29, 2025:
CBP Ready to Enforce End of de Minimis Loophole, Securing Borders and Strengthening Trade Enforcement
| CBP.gov
August 28, 2025:
WORST OF THE WORST: ICE Arrests Multiple Criminal Illegal Aliens with Convictions for Sexual Offenses Against Children, Drug Traffickers, and Other Violent Thugs
| DHS.gov
August 28, 2025:
CBP Officers Find Potentially Dangerous Pill Cache in Two Travelers’ Baggage at BWI Airport
| CBP.gov
August 25, 2025:
San Diego Sector Border Patrol Sees Increase in Drug Smuggling Attempts Using Car Batteries
| CBP.gov
August 25, 2025:
Coast Guard Achieves Historic Milestone with Offload Over 76,140 lbs. in Illegal Narcotics at Port Everglades
| USCG.mil
August 21, 2025:
CBP Observes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day
| CBP.gov
August 19, 2025:
Fugitive Extradited from Mexico to Face Drug Trafficking Charges After ICE San Diego Investigation
| ICE.gov
August 16, 2025:
While Americans Enjoyed their Friday Nights, ICE Officers Arrested More Worst of the Worst Including Pedophiles and Drug Traffickers
August 12, 2025:
Another Record-setting Month at CBP: Border Continues to be Most Secure in History
| CBP.gov
August 12, 2025:
Safeguarding Neighborhoods: CBP’s San Diego Field Office ends July with more than $32 million in narcotics seized
| CBP.gov
August 8, 2025:
ICE Investigation Leads to 20-Year Prison Sentence for Man Who Sold Fentanyl That Caused Fatal Overdoses
| CBP.gov
August 4, 2025:
CBP Officers Seize Over $1.1M in Fentanyl and Cocaine at Anzalduas International Bridge
| CBP.gov
August 4, 2025:
53 Members of the Criminal Organization Known as Las Farc Charged with Drug Trafficking and Firearms Violations in San Juan, Puerto Rico
| ICE.gov
July 21, 2025:
CBP Officers Stop Internal Carrier Smuggling Fentanyl
| CBP.gov
July 18, 2025:
ICE Continues to Round Up the Worst of the Worst: Convicted Killer and Fentanyl Trafficker Off American Streets
July 17, 2025:
Philadelphia CBP Intercepts Another 72 Pounds of Dangerous Ketamine Destined to South Florida
| CBP.gov
July 15, 2025:
Most Secure Border in History: CBP Reports Major Enforcement Wins in June 2025
| CBP.gov
July 15, 2025:
Ovidio Guzman Lopez — Son of El Chapo and Head of Sinaloa Cartel — Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Charges in Chicago
| ICE.gov
July 8, 2025:
San Diego CBP Officers Seize Narcotics, Weapons, Currency, and Protected Wildlife in Major June Crackdown
| CBP.gov
July 2, 2025:
ICE Newark Operation Makes 18 Arrests, Takes Down Newark Open-Air Drug Market
| ICE.gov
July 1, 2025:
San Diego Sector Border Patrol Seizes More Than 128 Pounds of Fentanyl Hidden in Flatbed Trailer
| CBP.gov
July 1, 2025:
ICE Baltimore Investigation Leads to Decade-Long Prison Sentence for Prince George’s County Man Convicted of Drug Conspiracy
| ICE.gov
June 17, 2025:
CBP Releases May 2025 Monthly Update
| CBP.gov
June 12, 2025:
ICE investigation nets 10-year sentence for leader of drug trafficking organization
| ICE.gov
June 6, 2025:
CBP's San Diego Field Office Concludes May with $17 million in Narcotics Seized
| CBP.gov
June 4, 2025:
Colorado Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced in Texas to 20 years in Federal Prison Following ICE El Paso Investigation
| ICE.gov
May 27, 2025:
ICE Nogales, CBP Case Sends Phoenix Woman to Over 8 years in Prison for Narcotics Trafficking, Bankruptcy Fraud
| ICE.gov
May 27, 2025:
ICE, Multiagency Case Results in Mexican National Sentenced to 88 Months in Prison For Role in Drug Conspiracy
| ICE.gov
May 23, 2025:
Ongoing Success: San Diego Sector Border Patrol Seizes More than 66 Pounds of Cocaine
| CBP.gov
May 13, 2025:
Sinaloa Cartel Leaders Charged with Narco-Terrorism, Material Support of Terrorism and Drug Trafficking in ICE, FBI Investigation
| ICE.gov
May 13, 2025:
CBP Officers Apprehend Man Hiding Fentanyl Internally
| CBP.gov
May 12, 2025:
CBP Releases April 2025 Monthly Update
| CBP.gov
May 9, 2025:
CBP Officers apprehend woman transporting fentanyl in internal cavity
| CBP.gov
May 8, 2025:
CBP’s San Diego Field Office Ends April with a $29 Million Narcotics Knockout
| CBP.gov
May 8, 2025:
CBP Acting Commissioner Pete Flores Addresses the Trade and Cargo Security Summit
| CBP.gov
May 2, 2025:
CBP Officers Seize Methamphetamine and Fentanyl at Fort Hancock Port
| CBP.gov
April 21, 2025:
CBP Officers stop motor scooter ferrying drugs across border bridge
| CBP.gov
April 14, 2025:
CBP Officers Intercept Woman Transporting Drugs in Multiple Internal Cavities
| CBP.gov
April 11, 2025:
Statement from Acting Commissioner Pete R. Flores on CBP’s Support of Operation FREE 3.0
| CBP.gov
April 10, 2025:
CBP Officers Stop Drug Pedaler Attempting to Cross Narcotics in Bicycle
| CBP.gov
April 2, 2025:
CBP Officers Intercept Smuggler Carrying Fentanyl Inside His Body
| CBP.gov
March 28, 2025:
Father, Son Arrested on Fentanyl Trafficking, Gun Sales and Immigration Violations Following ICE, Multiagency Investigation
| ICE.gov
March 27, 2025:
CBP Officers Nab Teen Smuggling Methamphetamine and Fentanyl
| CBP.gov
March 20, 2025:
Coast Guard Offloads Over $517.5 Million in Illicit Drugs Interdicted in Eastern Pacific Ocean
| USCG.mil
March 20, 2025:Back-to-Back Busts: U.S. Border Patrol Hits Drug Smugglers Hard in 24-hour Takedown| CBP.gov
March 13, 2025:
ICE Investigation Nets 2 Sentences for Men’s Roles in Operating Fentanyl Drug Mill
| ICE.gov
March 4, 2025:
Houston Resident Heads to Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl in Hidden Compartment Following ICE Rio Grande Valley, Federal Partner Investigation
| ICE.gov
February 27, 2025:
CBP Officers Interdict Attempted Smuggling of a Mixed Load Containing Fentanyl, Cocaine, Heroin and Methamphetamine in Vehicle Floor
| CBP.gov
February 24, 2025:
U.S. Border Patrol Seizes Over 160 Pounds of Narcotics Worth More than $1.2 Million in Two Major Busts
| CBP.gov
February 12, 2025:
Seattle CBP officers seize more than 1 pound of fentanyl
| CBP.gov
February 10, 2025:
ICE Denver Arrests Honduran Alien with Firearm, Drug Charges
| ICE.gov
February 3, 2025:
HSI Newark Investigation Leads to Conviction of New Jersey Man on Financial Crimes and Trafficking Fentanyl-related Substances
| ICE.gov
January 31, 2025:
HSI Tucson, DEA, U.S. Marshals Arrest 2 Illegal Aliens Previously Convicted for Aggravated Felonies
| ICE.gov
January 24, 2025:
HSI San Diego, Multiagency Case Sends Trafficker to 19.5 Years in Prison for Supplying Weapons and Ammunition to Sinaloa Cartel
| ICE.gov
January 17, 2025:
Jacksonville Man Sentenced for Trafficking Fentanyl, Other Narcotics
| HSI.gov
January 17, 2025:
HSI Laredo, Federal Partners Investigation Results in a South Texas Dealer Facing Prison Time for Selling Fentanyl to a Teenager Resulting in Death
| HSI.gov
January 16, 2025:
Prior Felon Receives 16-Year Sentence on Fentanyl, Gun Charges After HSI Buffalo Investigation
| HSI.gov
January 13, 2025:
CBP Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Enhance Enforcement as to Low-Value Shipments
| CBP.gov
December 19, 2024:
DHS S&T Announces Award to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for Counter-Fentanyl Efforts
December 19, 2024:
2 Drug Trafficking Organization Members Plead Guilty to Fentanyl Analogue Distribution Following HSI Newark Investigation
| HSI.gov
December 18, 2024:
San Diego Sector Border Patrol continues to seize cocaine, arrest smugglers and scouts
| CBP.gov
December 12, 2024:
Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty to Multiple Drug Offenses After Selling Drugs to an Undercover Officer
| HSI.gov
December 10, 2024:
Border Patrol agents seize nearly 5 pounds of fentanyl after short pursuit
| CBP.gov
December 6, 2024:
HSI Milwaukee Investigation Lands Wisconsin Man a 16-Year Sentence for Possessing Fentanyl Intended for Distribution
| HSI.gov
December 4, 2024:
Memphis Man Sentenced for Possession of Fentanyl, Multiple Firearms
| HSI.gov
December 4, 2024:
Jury Finds Ohio Man Guilty on All Charges, Including Murdering 3 Victims, Directing Others to Dismember and Bury 2 of the Bodies Following HSI Columbus Investigation
| HSI.gov
December 2, 2024:
CBP Officers intercept and seize a large quantity of deadly fentanyl pills
| CBP.gov
November 26, 2024:
CBP officers at San Ysidro Port of Entry discover fentanyl and cocaine hidden in non-factory compartments within vehicle seats
| CBP.gov
November 26, 2024:
U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector stops suspected fentanyl smuggler
| CBP.gov
November 25, 2025:
HSI: Fort Myers Man Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Fentanyl
November 22, 2024:
CBP Recognizes Outstanding Employees During Annual Awards Ceremony
| CBP.gov
November 19, 2024:
El Paso CBP officers stop internal cavity drug smugglers
| CBP.gov
November 18, 2024:
Norfolk CBP Officers Intercept Dangerous Fentanyl in Export Vehicle Container Destined to Sierra Leone
| CBP.gov
November 14, 2024:
HSI Los Angeles, Multiagency Investigation Results in Chinese Chemical Company, Senior Leaders Indicted for Suspected Fentanyl Manufacturing, Distribution
| HSI.gov
November 13, 2024:
HSI Miami-Fort Pierce Investigation Leads to Sebring Man Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Possession
| HSI.gov
November 12, 2024:
Statement from Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Commissioner Troy A. Miller on the Results of a Multi-Agency Counter Fentanyl Operation
| CBP.gov
November 7, 2024:
HSI Calexico, Border Patrol Case Results in 48 Defendants Charged in Imperial Valley Takedown of Drug Trafficking Network Linked to Sinaloa Cartel
November 6, 2024:
HSI Seattle Operation Leads to 12 Indictments in Connection With Violent Drug Trafficking Organization
October 31, 2024:
Suspected smugglers' attempts fall short as CBP officers interdict fentanyl pills and ammunition
| CBP.gov
October 29, 2024:
U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector continues to intercept drugs with three significant seizures last week
| CBP.gov
October 28, 2024:
CBP officers seize over $438K in mixed narcotics at Eagle Pass Port of Entry
| CBP.gov
October 22, 2024:
CBP Releases September 2024 Monthly Update
| CBP.gov
October 22, 2024:
California Man Admits Fentanyl Distribution After HSI Newark Investigation
October 22, 2024:
10 Indicted Following HSI investigation Into Massachusetts-Based Drug Trafficking Organization
October 17, 2024:
New York Man Receives 13-Year Sentence for Role in 2 Bronx Drug Mills, Causing Death of Toddler, Following HSI Newark Investigation
October 15, 2024:
ERO Boston arrests Dominican national convicted of drug charges in Massachusetts
| ICE.gov
October 15,2024:
CBP officers seize over 122 pounds of blue fentanyl pills concealed throughout vehicle
| CBP.gov
October 2, 2024:
Port of San Luis CBP Officers arrest teen with $1 Million of Narcotics
| CBP.gov
October 1, 2024:
HSI New York, Federal Partners Announce Charges Against 18 Defendants in Scheme to Manufacture, Distribute Millions of Deadly Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals Through Fake Online Pharmacies
September 27, 2024:
HSI New York Investigation Lands Long Island Drug Dealer 17 Years in Prison for Distributing Fentanyl That Caused Death of Suffolk County Man
September 24, 2024:
HSI joins U.S. Department of the Treasury in Announcing Sanctions Against Individuals and Businesses Connected to Colombian and Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations
September 23, 2024:
CBP Officers Seize Over 100 Pounds of Blue Fentanyl Pills Concealed Throughout Vehicle
| CBP.gov
September 20, 2024:
Second Significant Fentanyl Seizure in Two Weeks for U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector
| CBP.gov
September 18, 2024:
2 Charged with Fentanyl Trafficking Following HSI Laredo, Federal Partner Investigation
September 13, 2024:
DHS Workforce on the Frontlines of Biden-Harris Administration’s New Executive Actions to Address Surge in De Minimis Shipments and Protect American Consumers, Workers, and Businesses
| CBP.gov
September 11, 2024:
DHS Workforce Reflects on Sept. 11: Dr. Laura Parker
September 6, 2024:
Florida Man Gets Life for Fentanyl Distribution, Sex Trafficking
September 6, 2024:
San Diego Sector Border Patrol Seizes Fentanyl on Interstate 8
| CBP.gov
September 5, 2024:
Port of San Luis CBP Officers Bust Fentanyl and Meth Smuggling Attempts
| CBP.gov
August 29, 2024:
San Ysidro Port of Entry Seizes Over One Ton of Narcotics in the Month of July
| CBP.gov
August 28, 2024:
CBP Officers at Port of San Luis Intercept Fentanyl Methamphetamine Loads
| CBP.gov
August 22, 2024:
CBP Officers Seize Fentanyl Meth in Arizona
| CBP.gov
August 21, 2024:
Statement from Acting Commissioner Troy A. Miller on National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day
| CBP.gov
August 16, 2024:
CBP Releases July 2024 Monthly Update
| CBP.gov
August 15, 2024:
CBP Finds Fentanyl in a Flatbed Trailer
| CBP.gov
August 14, 2024:
4 Charged With Drug Trafficking, Firearms Offenses
August 13, 2024:
Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing More Than 2,000 Fentanyl Pills
August 6, 2024:
HSI Laredo, Multiagency Investigation Results in Third Person Charged With Selling Fentanyl Resulting in Death
August 1, 2024:
CBP officers in Arizona seize more than half a ton of fentanyl in largest seizure in agency history
| CBP.gov
July 31, 2024:
Readout of President Joe Biden’s Briefing on Ongoing Work to Combat Illicit Fentanyl
| Whitehouse.gov
July 31, 2024:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Counter the Scourge of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Drugs
| Whitehouse.gov
July 31, 2024:
Fact Sheet: DHS Shows Results in the Fight to Cripple Cartels and Stop Fentanyl from Entering the U.S.
July 30, 2024:
CBP officers seize $553K in mixed narcotics at Eagle Pass Port of Entry
| CBP.gov
July 25, 2024:
Statement from Secretary Mayorkas on Arrest of Alleged Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel
July 25, 2024:
CBP officers intercept purple fentanyl powder in two separate smuggling attempts
| CBP.gov
July 22, 2024:
ICYMI: CBP Announces Expanded Operations Targeting Transnational Criminal Organizations
| CBP.gov
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Combating Fentanyl
DHS is on the frontlines fighting against cartels and Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) that are flooding our communities with illicit synthetic drugs, like fentanyl.
Fiscal Year 2024 Year to Date Highlights:
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Data applies to October 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024.
DHS, through its component agencies U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and in coordination with Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) and the Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), has stopped more illicit fentanyl and arrested more individuals for fentanyl-related crimes in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 than in the previous five years combined. We are doing this through enforcement actions, including seizures of fentanyl and precursor chemicals, along with stopping southbound guns and money, and supporting prosecutions to prevent future illicit acts.
DHS and its components are focused on enforcement actions, partnerships, technologies, and capacity-building in four areas:
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DHS is leading the federal effort to combat fentanyl internationally, through information-sharing, multinational enforcement operations, and global cooperation and partnerships.
Recent Efforts
In April 2024, CBP launched
Operation Plaza Spike
to target plaza bosses and cartels that facilitate the flow of fentanyl and its precursors. In July 2024, CBP expanded the operation to El Paso and Juarez.
In June 2024, HSI indicted 47 alleged members of an Imperial Valley-based, Sinaloa Cartel-linked fentanyl distribution network; and in July, HSI helped execute the arrest on U.S. soil of the de facto head of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Under President Biden’s leadership, the U.S. has stepped up counternarcotics cooperation with key government partners, including
China
,
India
,
Mexico, and Canada
– and launched the Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats, which unites more than 140 countries in the fight against drug trafficking cartels and illicit finance.
DHS participates in the National Security Council-led Counternarcotics Working Group with China to disrupt the manufacture and flow of illicit synthetic drugs, delivering on the commitments made during President Biden’s meeting with President Xi in November 2023.
DHS also contributes to the Trilateral Fentanyl Committee with the Governments of Mexico and Canada.
HSI partners with vetted foreign law enforcement officials and prosecutors in Transnational Criminal Investigative Units (TCIUs), which support investigations and prosecutions abroad. HSI has established 16 TCIUs worldwide. In FY 2023, efforts by the Mexico TCIU resulted in the seizure of 64,138 pounds of precursor chemicals and more than 59 criminal arrests.
We are working with shippers and private industry to provide more data to CBP. The
Section 321 Data Pilot
helps us work more closely with non-traditional trade partners to identify and interdict illicit shipments in small packages, without inhibiting cross-border e-commerce.
DHS has partnered with countries like the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, France as well as New Zealand and Australia in addition to Europol and Interpol to share information and intelligence to disrupt illicit movement of precursor chemicals.
DHS participates in World Customs Organization (WCO) meetings to advocate for the issuance of global customs policy standards and practices relating to synthetic drugs, consistent with those established by and in conjunction with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and/or the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).
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DHS personnel is on the front lines to detect and prevent fentanyl and its precursor chemicals from flowing into our country.
More than 90% of interdicted fentanyl is stopped at Ports of Entry (POEs), where cartels attempt to smuggle it primarily in vehicles driven by U.S. citizens. CBP and HSI throughout the past two years have run operations that mobilized hundreds of personnel – CBP officers, special agents, import specialists, and intelligence analysts – through surges and deployments at Southwest Border POEs, airports, express consignment facilities, international mail facilities, container stations, and warehouses across the country.
Launched in October 2023, in Southern California,
Operation Apollo
is a CBP counter-fentanyl operation that disrupts drug and chemical supplies, collects and shares intelligence, and leverages valuable state and local law enforcement partnerships. Operation Apollo expanded into Arizona in April 2024. In July, CBP announced Operation Apollo X to expand that kind of collaboration to El Paso, Texas.
Other recent operations include:
Operation Blue Lotus
, launched in March 2023, surged CBP and HSI resources to Southwest Border POEs and worked with state, local, Tribal, and territorial partners to expose networks.
Operation Four Horsemen
was a complementary United States Border Patrol (USBP) operation to stop fentanyl between POEs and at checkpoints near the border. As a result of these two operations, DHS seized nearly 10,000 pounds of fentanyl, and more than 10,000 pounds of other narcotics like cocaine and methamphetamines.
Operation Artemis
, a collaboration between CBP and HSI, targeted the illicit fentanyl supply chain, leveraging multidisciplined interagency "jump teams" at strategic locations. The four months Operation Artemis led to over 900 seizures, including over 13,000 pounds of fentanyl precursor chemicals.
Operation Rolling Wave
surged inbound inspections at Southwest Border checkpoints, covering every sector and employing predictive analysis and intelligence sharing.
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DHS is partnering with federal, state, and local stakeholders to share information and track and disrupt fentanyl networks within our communities. In addition to collaborations like those described in Operation Apollo above, DHS works with state, local, territorial, and tribal partners in a variety of ways:
DHS is a department of partnerships, and sharing information with state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement and community partners is fundamental to our efforts. State, local, tribal, territorial, and international law enforcement are also in integral part of the success of DHS task forces, most significantly HSI’s Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST). The primary mission of HSI’s BEST is to combat emerging and existing TCOs by employing the full range of federal, state, local, tribal, and international law enforcement authorities and resources in the fight to identify, investigate, disrupt, and dismantle these organizations at every level of operation. BESTs eliminate the barriers between federal and local investigations (access to both federal and state prosecutors) and close the gap with international partners in multinational criminal investigations.
State, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement also support efforts to disrupt TCOs by nominating individuals to the Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) watchlist through DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A). The TOC watchlist, maintained by the FBI, is a list of individuals known or reasonably suspected to be involved in transnational organized crime.
Every year, DHS provides a significant level of support through preparedness grants to help state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, nonprofit agencies, and the private sector. Among those grants, Operation Stonegarden provides tens of millions of dollars to enhance cooperation among law enforcement agencies to jointly enhance security along the United States land and water borders. In the last four fiscal years, DHS has provided on average nearly $90 million per year to community partners through Operation Stonegarden.
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DHS is working on developing new technology to support better detection and apprehension of synthetic drugs and their precursors.
Non-Intrusive Inspection:
We are dramatically expanding non-intrusive inspection (NII) technology at our southwest border to screen and detect not only drugs, but also currency, guns, ammunition, and illegal merchandise, as well as people being smuggled or trafficked into the country, while minimally impacting the flow of legitimate travel and commerce. By installing 123 new large-scale scanners at multiple POEs along the southwest border, CBP will increase its inspection capacity of passenger vehicles from two percent to 40 percent, and of cargo vehicles from 17 percent to 70 percent.
Forward Operating Laboratories:
CBP is operating 16 Forward Operating Laboratories to provide onsite, rapid testing for fentanyl to frontline personnel. A process that once would have taken weeks now takes seconds for quicker law enforcement actions, prosecutions, and intelligence collection.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Ports of Entry:
CBP is innovating with the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence at our POEs. This year alone, machine learning models that help CBP Officers determine which suspicious vehicles and passengers to refer to secondary screening have led to 240 seizures, which include thousands of pounds of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl.
HSI Strategic Network Dismantlement Project:
HSI is using Artificial Intelligence to illuminate fentanyl networks, known and unknown to authorities, operating throughout the U.S. and abroad. The HSI Strategic Network Dismantlement Project partners data engineers and data scientists with HSI investigators who leverage the HSI-owned RAVEN platform to analyze raw data, derive meaningful investigative insights, and enable disruptions of the global fentanyl supply chain.
HSI Innovation Lab
: HSI is utilizing the HSI Innovation Lab to provide data analytics and cutting-edge technologies (machine learning and artificial intelligence) to combat fentanyl.
Despite our progress, our efforts require action from Congress. This Administration is seeking legislation in Congress to increase penalties on those who bring deadly drugs into our communities and close loopholes that drug traffickers exploit. The "
Detect and Defeat
" Counter-Fentanyl legislative proposal would give border officials the tools they need to more effectively track and target the millions of small-dollar shipments that cross our borders – closing a loophole that drug traffickers exploit.
April 15, 2026:
San Diego CBP Field Office Seizes Over $14 Million in Narcotics in March
| CBP.gov
March 31, 2026:
CBP Officers Seize Fentanyl, Heroin at San Ysidro Port of Entry
| CBP.gov
March 23, 2026:
CBP Officers Seize $2.2 Million in Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl at Del Rio Port of Entry
| CBP.gov
March 19, 2026:
CBP Seizes Cocaine, Fentanyl, and Methamphetamine at Paso del Norte
| CBP.gov
March 15, 2026:
Washington Man Sentenced to 20 Years Following HSI Investigation Into Commercial Pill Press Operation
| ICE.gov
January 22, 2026:
CBP Seizes More Than $1.2 Million in Assorted Narcotics at Anzalduas International Bridge
| CBP.gov
January 22, 2026:
San Diego Ports Seize Nearly 33,000 Pounds of Dangerous Narcotics Worth $111 Million
| CBP.gov
December 29, 2025:
Philadelphia CBP Officers Intercept Six More Dangerous Ketamine Smuggling Attempts from Europe
| CBP.gov
December 1, 2025:
ICE Philadelphia Arrests Salvadoran Criminal Alien Convicted of Child Cruelty, Intent to Deliver Fentanyl, Attempted Robbery and Attempted Money Laundering
| ICE.gov
November 24, 2025:
Border Patrol Agents Find Deadly Cocktail of Narcotics in Booster Seats
| CBP.gov
November 19, 2025:
San Diego Sector Border Patrol Stops Freeway Fentanyl Smuggler
| CBP.gov
November 6, 2025:
CBP Seizes 263 Kilos of Narcotics at Various El Paso Ports of Entry
| CBP.gov
September 30, 2025:
Coast Guard Detains 4 Mexican Fishermen, Seizes 450 Pounds of Illegally Caught Fish Off Texas Coast
| USCIS.gov
September 23, 2025:
CBP Officers Seize Over $3.7 Million in Hard Narcotics at Laredo Port of Entry
| CBP.gov
August 29, 2025:
CBP Ready to Enforce End of de Minimis Loophole, Securing Borders and Strengthening Trade Enforcement
| CBP.gov
August 28, 2025:
WORST OF THE WORST: ICE Arrests Multiple Criminal Illegal Aliens with Convictions for Sexual Offenses Against Children, Drug Traffickers, and Other Violent Thugs
| DHS.gov
August 28, 2025:
CBP Officers Find Potentially Dangerous Pill Cache in Two Travelers’ Baggage at BWI Airport
| CBP.gov
August 25, 2025:
San Diego Sector Border Patrol Sees Increase in Drug Smuggling Attempts Using Car Batteries
| CBP.gov
August 25, 2025:
Coast Guard Achieves Historic Milestone with Offload Over 76,140 lbs. in Illegal Narcotics at Port Everglades
| USCG.mil
August 21, 2025:
CBP Observes National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day
| CBP.gov
August 19, 2025:
Fugitive Extradited from Mexico to Face Drug Trafficking Charges After ICE San Diego Investigation
| ICE.gov
August 16, 2025:
While Americans Enjoyed their Friday Nights, ICE Officers Arrested More Worst of the Worst Including Pedophiles and Drug Traffickers
August 12, 2025:
Another Record-setting Month at CBP: Border Continues to be Most Secure in History
| CBP.gov
August 12, 2025:
Safeguarding Neighborhoods: CBP’s San Diego Field Office ends July with more than $32 million in narcotics seized
| CBP.gov
August 8, 2025:
ICE Investigation Leads to 20-Year Prison Sentence for Man Who Sold Fentanyl That Caused Fatal Overdoses
| CBP.gov
August 4, 2025:
CBP Officers Seize Over $1.1M in Fentanyl and Cocaine at Anzalduas International Bridge
| CBP.gov
August 4, 2025:
53 Members of the Criminal Organization Known as Las Farc Charged with Drug Trafficking and Firearms Violations in San Juan, Puerto Rico
| ICE.gov
July 21, 2025:
CBP Officers Stop Internal Carrier Smuggling Fentanyl
| CBP.gov
July 18, 2025:
ICE Continues to Round Up the Worst of the Worst: Convicted Killer and Fentanyl Trafficker Off American Streets
July 17, 2025:
Philadelphia CBP Intercepts Another 72 Pounds of Dangerous Ketamine Destined to South Florida
| CBP.gov
July 15, 2025:
Most Secure Border in History: CBP Reports Major Enforcement Wins in June 2025
| CBP.gov
July 15, 2025:
Ovidio Guzman Lopez — Son of El Chapo and Head of Sinaloa Cartel — Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Charges in Chicago
| ICE.gov
July 8, 2025:
San Diego CBP Officers Seize Narcotics, Weapons, Currency, and Protected Wildlife in Major June Crackdown
| CBP.gov
July 2, 2025:
ICE Newark Operation Makes 18 Arrests, Takes Down Newark Open-Air Drug Market
| ICE.gov
July 1, 2025:
San Diego Sector Border Patrol Seizes More Than 128 Pounds of Fentanyl Hidden in Flatbed Trailer
| CBP.gov
July 1, 2025:
ICE Baltimore Investigation Leads to Decade-Long Prison Sentence for Prince George’s County Man Convicted of Drug Conspiracy
| ICE.gov
June 17, 2025:
CBP Releases May 2025 Monthly Update
| CBP.gov
June 12, 2025:
ICE investigation nets 10-year sentence for leader of drug trafficking organization
| ICE.gov
June 6, 2025:
CBP's San Diego Field Office Concludes May with $17 million in Narcotics Seized
| CBP.gov
June 4, 2025:
Colorado Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced in Texas to 20 years in Federal Prison Following ICE El Paso Investigation
| ICE.gov
May 27, 2025:
ICE Nogales, CBP Case Sends Phoenix Woman to Over 8 years in Prison for Narcotics Trafficking, Bankruptcy Fraud
| ICE.gov
May 27, 2025:
ICE, Multiagency Case Results in Mexican National Sentenced to 88 Months in Prison For Role in Drug Conspiracy
| ICE.gov
May 23, 2025:
Ongoing Success: San Diego Sector Border Patrol Seizes More than 66 Pounds of Cocaine
| CBP.gov
May 13, 2025:
Sinaloa Cartel Leaders Charged with Narco-Terrorism, Material Support of Terrorism and Drug Trafficking in ICE, FBI Investigation
| ICE.gov
May 13, 2025:
CBP Officers Apprehend Man Hiding Fentanyl Internally
| CBP.gov
May 12, 2025:
CBP Releases April 2025 Monthly Update
| CBP.gov
May 9, 2025:
CBP Officers apprehend woman transporting fentanyl in internal cavity
| CBP.gov
May 8, 2025:
CBP’s San Diego Field Office Ends April with a $29 Million Narcotics Knockout
| CBP.gov
May 8, 2025:
CBP Acting Commissioner Pete Flores Addresses the Trade and Cargo Security Summit
| CBP.gov
May 2, 2025:
CBP Officers Seize Methamphetamine and Fentanyl at Fort Hancock Port
| CBP.gov
April 21, 2025:
CBP Officers stop motor scooter ferrying drugs across border bridge
| CBP.gov
April 14, 2025:
CBP Officers Intercept Woman Transporting Drugs in Multiple Internal Cavities
| CBP.gov
April 11, 2025:
Statement from Acting Commissioner Pete R. Flores on CBP’s Support of Operation FREE 3.0
| CBP.gov
April 10, 2025:
CBP Officers Stop Drug Pedaler Attempting to Cross Narcotics in Bicycle
| CBP.gov
April 2, 2025:
CBP Officers Intercept Smuggler Carrying Fentanyl Inside His Body
| CBP.gov
March 28, 2025:
Father, Son Arrested on Fentanyl Trafficking, Gun Sales and Immigration Violations Following ICE, Multiagency Investigation
| ICE.gov
March 27, 2025:
CBP Officers Nab Teen Smuggling Methamphetamine and Fentanyl
| CBP.gov
March 20, 2025:
Coast Guard Offloads Over $517.5 Million in Illicit Drugs Interdicted in Eastern Pacific Ocean
| USCG.mil
March 20, 2025:Back-to-Back Busts: U.S. Border Patrol Hits Drug Smugglers Hard in 24-hour Takedown| CBP.gov
March 13, 2025:
ICE Investigation Nets 2 Sentences for Men’s Roles in Operating Fentanyl Drug Mill
| ICE.gov
March 4, 2025:
Houston Resident Heads to Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl in Hidden Compartment Following ICE Rio Grande Valley, Federal Partner Investigation
| ICE.gov
February 27, 2025:
CBP Officers Interdict Attempted Smuggling of a Mixed Load Containing Fentanyl, Cocaine, Heroin and Methamphetamine in Vehicle Floor
| CBP.gov
February 24, 2025:
U.S. Border Patrol Seizes Over 160 Pounds of Narcotics Worth More than $1.2 Million in Two Major Busts
| CBP.gov
February 12, 2025:
Seattle CBP officers seize more than 1 pound of fentanyl
| CBP.gov
February 10, 2025:
ICE Denver Arrests Honduran Alien with Firearm, Drug Charges
| ICE.gov
February 3, 2025:
HSI Newark Investigation Leads to Conviction of New Jersey Man on Financial Crimes and Trafficking Fentanyl-related Substances
| ICE.gov
January 31, 2025:
HSI Tucson, DEA, U.S. Marshals Arrest 2 Illegal Aliens Previously Convicted for Aggravated Felonies
| ICE.gov
January 24, 2025:
HSI San Diego, Multiagency Case Sends Trafficker to 19.5 Years in Prison for Supplying Weapons and Ammunition to Sinaloa Cartel
| ICE.gov
January 17, 2025:
Jacksonville Man Sentenced for Trafficking Fentanyl, Other Narcotics
| HSI.gov
January 17, 2025:
HSI Laredo, Federal Partners Investigation Results in a South Texas Dealer Facing Prison Time for Selling Fentanyl to a Teenager Resulting in Death
| HSI.gov
January 16, 2025:
Prior Felon Receives 16-Year Sentence on Fentanyl, Gun Charges After HSI Buffalo Investigation
| HSI.gov
January 13, 2025:
CBP Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Enhance Enforcement as to Low-Value Shipments
| CBP.gov
December 19, 2024:
DHS S&T Announces Award to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for Counter-Fentanyl Efforts
December 19, 2024:
2 Drug Trafficking Organization Members Plead Guilty to Fentanyl Analogue Distribution Following HSI Newark Investigation
| HSI.gov
December 18, 2024:
San Diego Sector Border Patrol continues to seize cocaine, arrest smugglers and scouts
| CBP.gov
December 12, 2024:
Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty to Multiple Drug Offenses After Selling Drugs to an Undercover Officer
| HSI.gov
December 10, 2024:
Border Patrol agents seize nearly 5 pounds of fentanyl after short pursuit
| CBP.gov
December 6, 2024:
HSI Milwaukee Investigation Lands Wisconsin Man a 16-Year Sentence for Possessing Fentanyl Intended for Distribution
| HSI.gov
December 4, 2024:
Memphis Man Sentenced for Possession of Fentanyl, Multiple Firearms
| HSI.gov
December 4, 2024:
Jury Finds Ohio Man Guilty on All Charges, Including Murdering 3 Victims, Directing Others to Dismember and Bury 2 of the Bodies Following HSI Columbus Investigation
| HSI.gov
December 2, 2024:
CBP Officers intercept and seize a large quantity of deadly fentanyl pills
| CBP.gov
November 26, 2024:
CBP officers at San Ysidro Port of Entry discover fentanyl and cocaine hidden in non-factory compartments within vehicle seats
| CBP.gov
November 26, 2024:
U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector stops suspected fentanyl smuggler
| CBP.gov
November 25, 2025:
HSI: Fort Myers Man Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Fentanyl
November 22, 2024:
CBP Recognizes Outstanding Employees During Annual Awards Ceremony
| CBP.gov
November 19, 2024:
El Paso CBP officers stop internal cavity drug smugglers
| CBP.gov
November 18, 2024:
Norfolk CBP Officers Intercept Dangerous Fentanyl in Export Vehicle Container Destined to Sierra Leone
| CBP.gov
November 14, 2024:
HSI Los Angeles, Multiagency Investigation Results in Chinese Chemical Company, Senior Leaders Indicted for Suspected Fentanyl Manufacturing, Distribution
| HSI.gov
November 13, 2024:
HSI Miami-Fort Pierce Investigation Leads to Sebring Man Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Fentanyl Possession
| HSI.gov
November 12, 2024:
Statement from Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Commissioner Troy A. Miller on the Results of a Multi-Agency Counter Fentanyl Operation
| CBP.gov
November 7, 2024:
HSI Calexico, Border Patrol Case Results in 48 Defendants Charged in Imperial Valley Takedown of Drug Trafficking Network Linked to Sinaloa Cartel
November 6, 2024:
HSI Seattle Operation Leads to 12 Indictments in Connection With Violent Drug Trafficking Organization
October 31, 2024:
Suspected smugglers' attempts fall short as CBP officers interdict fentanyl pills and ammunition
| CBP.gov
October 29, 2024:
U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector continues to intercept drugs with three significant seizures last week
| CBP.gov
October 28, 2024:
CBP officers seize over $438K in mixed narcotics at Eagle Pass Port of Entry
| CBP.gov
October 22, 2024:
CBP Releases September 2024 Monthly Update
| CBP.gov
October 22, 2024:
California Man Admits Fentanyl Distribution After HSI Newark Investigation
October 22, 2024:
10 Indicted Following HSI investigation Into Massachusetts-Based Drug Trafficking Organization
October 17, 2024:
New York Man Receives 13-Year Sentence for Role in 2 Bronx Drug Mills, Causing Death of Toddler, Following HSI Newark Investigation
October 15, 2024:
ERO Boston arrests Dominican national convicted of drug charges in Massachusetts
| ICE.gov
October 15,2024:
CBP officers seize over 122 pounds of blue fentanyl pills concealed throughout vehicle
| CBP.gov
October 2, 2024:
Port of San Luis CBP Officers arrest teen with $1 Million of Narcotics
| CBP.gov
October 1, 2024:
HSI New York, Federal Partners Announce Charges Against 18 Defendants in Scheme to Manufacture, Distribute Millions of Deadly Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals Through Fake Online Pharmacies
September 27, 2024:
HSI New York Investigation Lands Long Island Drug Dealer 17 Years in Prison for Distributing Fentanyl That Caused Death of Suffolk County Man
September 24, 2024:
HSI joins U.S. Department of the Treasury in Announcing Sanctions Against Individuals and Businesses Connected to Colombian and Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations
September 23, 2024:
CBP Officers Seize Over 100 Pounds of Blue Fentanyl Pills Concealed Throughout Vehicle
| CBP.gov
September 20, 2024:
Second Significant Fentanyl Seizure in Two Weeks for U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector
| CBP.gov
September 18, 2024:
2 Charged with Fentanyl Trafficking Following HSI Laredo, Federal Partner Investigation
September 13, 2024:
DHS Workforce on the Frontlines of Biden-Harris Administration’s New Executive Actions to Address Surge in De Minimis Shipments and Protect American Consumers, Workers, and Businesses
| CBP.gov
September 11, 2024:
DHS Workforce Reflects on Sept. 11: Dr. Laura Parker
September 6, 2024:
Florida Man Gets Life for Fentanyl Distribution, Sex Trafficking
September 6, 2024:
San Diego Sector Border Patrol Seizes Fentanyl on Interstate 8
| CBP.gov
September 5, 2024:
Port of San Luis CBP Officers Bust Fentanyl and Meth Smuggling Attempts
| CBP.gov
August 29, 2024:
San Ysidro Port of Entry Seizes Over One Ton of Narcotics in the Month of July
| CBP.gov
August 28, 2024:
CBP Officers at Port of San Luis Intercept Fentanyl Methamphetamine Loads
| CBP.gov
August 22, 2024:
CBP Officers Seize Fentanyl Meth in Arizona
| CBP.gov
August 21, 2024:
Statement from Acting Commissioner Troy A. Miller on National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day
| CBP.gov
August 16, 2024:
CBP Releases July 2024 Monthly Update
| CBP.gov
August 15, 2024:
CBP Finds Fentanyl in a Flatbed Trailer
| CBP.gov
August 14, 2024:
4 Charged With Drug Trafficking, Firearms Offenses
August 13, 2024:
Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing More Than 2,000 Fentanyl Pills
August 6, 2024:
HSI Laredo, Multiagency Investigation Results in Third Person Charged With Selling Fentanyl Resulting in Death
August 1, 2024:
CBP officers in Arizona seize more than half a ton of fentanyl in largest seizure in agency history
| CBP.gov
July 31, 2024:
Readout of President Joe Biden’s Briefing on Ongoing Work to Combat Illicit Fentanyl
| Whitehouse.gov
July 31, 2024:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Counter the Scourge of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Drugs
| Whitehouse.gov
July 31, 2024:
Fact Sheet: DHS Shows Results in the Fight to Cripple Cartels and Stop Fentanyl from Entering the U.S.
July 30, 2024:
CBP officers seize $553K in mixed narcotics at Eagle Pass Port of Entry
| CBP.gov
July 25, 2024:
Statement from Secretary Mayorkas on Arrest of Alleged Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel
July 25, 2024:
CBP officers intercept purple fentanyl powder in two separate smuggling attempts
| CBP.gov
July 22, 2024:
ICYMI: CBP Announces Expanded Operations Targeting Transnational Criminal Organizations
| CBP.gov
DHS relies on its partners in state, local, tribal, territorial, and campus law enforcement.
Office for State and Local Law Enforcement
Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN)
Fusion Center Locations and Contact Information
Border Enforcement Security Task Forces (BEST)
Shadow Wolves
Fusion Centers and HIDTA Investigative Support Centers
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program
HIDTA Points of Contact
To report suspicious criminal activity related to narcotics smuggling, call the HSI Tip Line at
1-877-4-HSI-TIP
.
Keywords
Illicit Drug
Fentanyl
Last Updated:
04/16/2026
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