{"id":279189,"date":"2021-06-20T02:43:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T23:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/inside-industrial-made-meths-meteoric-rise-in-nyc\/"},"modified":"2021-06-20T02:43:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T23:43:17","slug":"inside-industrial-made-meths-meteoric-rise-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-industrial-made-meths-meteoric-rise-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"#Inside industrial-made meth\u2019s meteoric rise in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Inside industrial-made meth\u2019s meteoric rise in NYC<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A \u201ctidal wave\u201d of dangerous synthetic drugs is flooding New York City, with methamphetamines and fentanyl pouring over the U.S. southern border at alarming rates and quickly finding their way into local neighborhoods, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency said.<\/p>\n

This influx of dangerous drugs is having a deadly impact on the streets of New York, according to an April 30 report<\/a> from local health officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cFentanyl is up, a heroin rise is going on in New Year City and a very new wave that hit New York City is meth,\u201d DEA special agent Ray Donovan told The Post. \u201cWe\u2019re seizing a lot more meth than ever before.\u201d <\/p>\n

He called the surge a \u201ctidal wave.\u201d <\/p>\n

Meth seizures in New York City <\/strong>skyrocketed more than 200 percent last year, from 244 kilograms in 2019 to 755 kilos in 2020 \u2013 a haul with a reported street value of more than $29 million, according to the DEA. Just 28 kilos of meth were impounded as recently as 2012.<\/p>\n

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Plastic containers full of meth are seized by border patrol agents at the US-Mexico border.
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The amount of fentanyl seized climbed 41 percent, from 254 kilos in 2019 to 359 in 2020.<\/p>\n

Meth first gained widespread use in rural America in the 1970s as a cheap substitute for cocaine. It remained largely a problem in small-town America until very recently. A 2009 report<\/a> by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, for example, found 1,571 \u201cclandestine\u201d meth laboratory incidents in largely rural Missouri, and just 14 in New York state. <\/p>\n

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The DEA says Mexican cartels have increased their illegal drug production of synthetic meth and fentanyl during the pandemic.
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meth has since found its way into larger urban centers such as New York City, along with fentanyl. The COVID outbreak of the past year only fueled their availability, the DEA told The Post. The virus and the various shutdowns that went with it created a shortage of other street drugs so Mexican cartels quickly filled the void with their factory-manufactured products.<\/p>\n

Donovan said Mexican cartels \u201cstrategically expanded\u201d their line of synthetic meth and fentanyl into the Northeast during the COVID crisis, calling the drugs \u201ccheap, highly potent, accessible, easy to conceal \u2026 and very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

The crisis continues here in 2021 as the border faces its worst crisis in two decades.<\/p>\n

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The DEA captures a boat loaded with meth and fentanyl at the town of Topolobampo in Sinaloa, Mexico.
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The U.S. is \u201con pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years,\u201d Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last month. Critics say President Biden\u2019s border policies have only heightened the crisis. <\/p>\n

The city suffered 1,446 overdose deaths in the first three quarters of 2020, the last period for which data is available, according to a report<\/a> from the city Health Department. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s a 38 percent increase from the 1,046 people who died of overdoses in the same period of 2019.<\/p>\n

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The DEA claims meth conversion labs in NYC are being supplied by drug distributors buying off of Mexican drug cartels.
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Office of the Special Narcotics \/ U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The DOH report said that more than 75 percent of those deaths included fentanyl and that \u201cNew Yorkers who use drugs are more likely to encounter fentanyl than ever before\u201d because it\u2019s mixed with so many other drugs.<\/p>\n

The Health Department report stated that during the last quarter of 2020, \u201cmore than 80 percent of heroin tested contained fentanyl\u201d and that testing also found fentanyl in \u201ccocaine, ketamine, and methamphetamine, as well as benzodiazepines and opioid analgesics acquired from non-pharmaceutical sources.\u201d<\/p>\n

The app<\/a>eal of fentanyl to dealers, DEA officials say, is that it\u2019s heavily addictive which means more return business. <\/p>\n

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The DEA discovers a meth lab strainer used to develop crystal meth in the Bronx.
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Office of the Special Narcotics \/ U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The DEA seizes a pack of crystal meth found inside a cabinet at a meth lab in the Bronx.
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Office of the Special Narcotics \/ U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A pill press used to package fentanyl pills inside a meth lab in the Bronx.
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Office of the Special Narcotics \/ U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fentanyl and meth these days are manufactured in industrial labs in Mexico, smuggled across the U.S. border, and then shipped by trailer truck or personal vehicle to distribution points across the country \u2013 often in liquid or powder form where it\u2019s converted into crystal meth in makeshift labs or packaged into capsules inside New York City \u201cpill mills.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s first known meth conversion lab in the Bronx was raided by authorities in February, where they seized 22 pounds of meth, 45 grams of heroin and 2,000 narcotic pills. <\/p>\n

Also in February, Mexican nationals Jose Loreto Gastelum-Torres and Fredy Alejandro Gastelum-Vega were charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to smuggle into the U.S. 2.5 tons of meth and 100,000 fentanyl pills \u2013 valued at more than $90 million.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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