{"id":41094,"date":"2025-09-19T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/fentanyl-crisis-escalates-in-south-carolina-dea-warns-of-cartel-prison-drug-networks\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:00:52","slug":"fentanyl-crisis-escalates-in-south-carolina-dea-warns-of-cartel-prison-drug-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/fentanyl-crisis-escalates-in-south-carolina-dea-warns-of-cartel-prison-drug-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fentanyl Crisis Escalates in South Carolina | DEA Warns of Cartel, Prison Drug Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xh54tiSZGus?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>South Carolina is in the grip of a deadly fentanyl crisis, and state leaders say it\u2019s being fueled by powerful cartels, prison-run drug rings, and rising synthetic drug threats.<\/p>\n<p>7 News State House reporter Caroline Yaffa reports from a major DEA news conference, where officials sounded the alarm about the Sinaloa cartel using Atlanta as a pipeline to push fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and counterfeit pills into South Carolina communities.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 140+ kilos of fentanyl seized so far this year<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 4.4 million+ in drug-linked cash\/assets recovered<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Fentanyl seizures are up 6.5x statewide<\/p>\n<p>Even as overdose death rates decline, the threat is far from over \u2014 and a new drug even more deadly than fentanyl is on the rise. DEA agents say 100% of major drug cases in the state now have ties to prison-based operations, with inmates orchestrating drug trafficking from behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udce2 Parents are urged to talk to their children and warn them never to take pills unless prescribed and dispensed by a licensed professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina is in the grip of a deadly fentanyl crisis, and state leaders say it\u2019s being fueled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}