The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) calls it the largest fentanyl bust they've ever made, and New Mexico played a major part. They seized more than two million pills in Albuquerque alone, and federal agencies say the drug ring responsible spanned five states.

In what federal authorities are calling the “largest fentanyl bust in DEA history,” law enforcement officials have arrested 16 individuals and seized over three million fentanyl-laced pills, dismantling a major drug trafficking network linked to Mexico’s violent Sinaloa cartel,

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the man was leading a drug trafficking organization across several states.