FBI Director: ‘We Seized Enough Fentanyl in 2025 to Kill 178 Million Americans’

Federal officials attribute part of the recent decline to intensified interdiction efforts, maritime seizures, and cross-border enforcement coordination. Since April, the FBI Tampa Division’s Panama Express Strike Force, working with DEA, Homeland Security Investigations, and the U.S. Coast Guard, has seized approximately 66,900 kilograms of cocaine valued at more than $1.6 billion from maritime trafficking routes.