1,600 bags of fentanyl a day: DOJ targets Philadelphia-area drug ring

We just spent a couple hours having a great conversation with the folks that are on the front line in Pennsylvania battling the drug crisis that we've endured for far too long. And what we talked about today were some of the successes that we've had because of this administration's strategy to combat fentanyl and on the ways we can keep on working together to make sure that our successes continue. What we're seeing in Pennsylvania is what happens when we work together, when the Department of Justice and our U.S. attorneys and our federal law enforcement partners, DEA, FBI, Marshals, ATF, HSI, DHS, work with state and local law enforcement, and whether it's sheriffs, troopers, police officers, district attorneys, the great Pennsylvania Attorney General what we can accomplish for the citizens of this state in combating the scourge of drugs. So here in Pennsylvania, just over the past two months, here's a few highlights of what the Department of Justice has done to combat fentanyl. There were indictments against four members of a drug organization in the Philadelphia area that were allegedly selling 1,600 individual bags of fentanyl every single day. We have gotten, when we catch you, and we will, we have sentences of a combined 45 years in prison for two co-defendants from Monroe County convicted of conspiracy to traffic fentanyl, resulting in the death of several individuals. We had a 17 and a half year prison sentence for an individual from Newcastle who distributed fentanyl, heroin, cocaine while he was on federal supervised release after having his prior drug sentence commuted by President Biden.