A DEA agent tracked the source of fentanyl in Mormon country — a Mexican cartel
12/13/22
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from The Washington Post,
12/13/22:
The meth was expensive. The federal agents were running out of money.
They had been buying loads of drugs in undercover operations, trying to trace the pipeline of methamphetamine and fentanyl into this sleepy city of retirees, out-of-town hikers and Mormon churches.
Brady Wilson, one of just two Drug Enforcement Administration agents in southern Utah, begged his bosses for more cash. The case felt big — a window into how Mexican organized crime had penetrated even suburban America.
“It was a gut feeling,” Wilson said. A Mexican cartel, he suspected, had set up shop in St. George, Utah.
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