One sheriff from Idaho issued a harsh warning about the dangers of rainbow fentanyl to communities all over the country.
This past Wednesday, Kieran Donahue, the Sheriff of Canyon County, Idaho, warned that this rainbow-colored fentanyl, which seems to be made to look like candy in order to specifically target younger kids, was flooding into his area from across the southern border. Donahue claimed that this massive influx of the pills is just “the top of the iceberg” because of the fact that authorities along the border do not have the needed manpower or resources to deal with the crisis taking place at the border.
“It is the tip of the iceberg,” Donahue stated as part of a Wednesday segment appearance of “Fox and Friends First.” “We do not have the resources — throughout the United States, and specifically on the border — to stop and interdict the sheer amounts that are coming across that border, of fentanyl, and other drugs like heroin and methamphetamine. But the fentanyl is really the worst drug that we have seen on the streets. It’s unimaginable. None of us ever thought we’d be in this predicament, and its simply something that’s getting by us day in and day out, and we are simply not catching the vast majority of this stuff. Customs and Border Protection are doing a great job on the border, but they are so undermanned, when you look at the sheer amounts that the cartels are moving across and all the ways that they are moving them. We are truly under siege with this drug, and it’s an incredibly terrifying drug.”
Just last week, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) put out its own public service announcement that sported just one warning about the newly “emerging trend” of this rainbow-colored fentanyl spreading throughout the U.S.
“[T]his trend appears to be a new method used by drug cartels to sell highly addictive and potentially deadly fentanyl made to look like candy to children and young people,” stated the DEA. the announcement took place just a scant few days after authorities were able to confiscate well over 15,000 candy-colored fentanyl pills that were trying to pass through the port of entry in Nogales, Arizona. Michael W. Humphries, the port director in Nogales, claimed that it was the second consecutive day that the deadly fentanyl pills has been discovered at the port.
The state of Idaho is just one of a long and growing list of states that are having to deal with these dangerous pills in their communities. Around the same time as the pills were confiscated in Arizona, the sheriff’s office of Multnomah County, Oregon, found several grams of the deadly drug made to look like sidewalk chalk. While in nearby Montana, the state officials were able to confiscate over 58 times more fentanyl in the first half of 2022 than it seized in the entire year 2019.
