The Drug Enforcement Administration announced the arrest of 171 suspected members of the Sinaloa Cartel — which the State Department designated as a terrorist organization earlier this year — in New England in August. 

Between Aug. 25 and 29, the DEA arrested 617 suspects across 23 field divisions nationwide and seized over $11 million dollars in currency, $1.6 million in assets, 420 firearms, 714,707 counterfeit pills, and thousands of kilograms of other drugs: 480 of fentanyl powder, 2,209 of methamphetamine, 7,469 of cocaine, and 16.55 of heroin, according to the DEA. 

In New England specifically, 244 kilograms of drugs, 22,115 counterfeit pills, $1.3 million in currency, and 33 guns were seized, according to the New England division of the DEA. 

Of the 171 arrested in New England, 64 were in Connecticut, 49 in Massachusetts, 33 in New Hampshire, 11 in Maine, 10 in Rhode Island, and three in Vermont, according to the New England division of the DEA.

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