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

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