EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Twenty-six people are indicted in federal court and are accused of being part of a Sinaloa Cartel drug pipeline from Mexico to the St. Louis region.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said the case began in 2021 with the arrest of a man from O'Fallon, Illinois.

“We didn’t stop there,” said Michael Davis, special agent in charge of the DEA’s St. Louis Division. “We continued looking into this organization and what we found was the Mexican source of supply.”

Throughout the investigation, federal authorities say they seized 800 pounds of fentanyl, 150 pounds of methamphetamine and 100 pounds of cocaine.

According to the DEA, that is 200 million lethal doses of fentanyl.

The charges in this case range from conspiracy to distribute controlled substances to narco-ter

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