Fentanyl gets into Washington state in 'any manner you can think of'

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Through vehicles on Interstate 5, through packages disguised as merchandise from abroad, or through smugglers traveling north, fentanyl has poured into the Puget Sound area.

In the past couple of years, the symptoms of this crisis have become more apparent: Overdose deaths involvinghave surged, less deadly opioids have decreased in demand, and policymakers are debating how to combat the epidemic.

The M30 pill—typically small, round and pale blue—is one of the most common forms that street fentanyl takes. They can look nearly identical to actual oxycodone. Many people are still trying to buy illicit, highly addictive opioid pills, not knowing most are tainted with fentanyl, like the ones the Marysville man was producing.

The fake pills are often sold online, targeting young people. While open air drug markets—like the area around Third and Pine—are traditionally thought of as dealers' playgrounds, DEA special agent Galvan said every distributor mastered social media use after the pandemic.because of the anonymity and amount of users it can reach out to," he said.

Interstate couriers often transported the drugs in rental cars. The couple was helped by family members in Mexico, Washington, California and New York. Maldonado-Ramirez and his fellow drug-trafficking leaders spawned a larger network. They supplied drugs to redistributors who then sold smaller quantities directly to users or to other distributors.

 

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