precursor

A task force in California has already seized 4.4 pounds of pink powder containing ketamine and despropionyl fentanyl, a fentanyl precursor, a recent study reported.

“We’re not just going after mid-level sellers on dark web and going after cartels seizing large amounts of pills, we’re also going after these precursor companies.”

An image sent to an undercover federal agent by a Hubei Aoks executive appears to show fentanyl precursor.

Between 2016 to 2023, the company sold 11 kilos of fentanyl precursor and two kilos of xylazine — an animal tranquilizer often mixed with fentanyl — to an American buyer and falsely labeled the drugs as furniture, makeup, vases and apparel, according to the indictment.

Prosecutors said that the Sinaloa and New Generation Jalisco cartels are major buyers of precursor chemicals and that they then turn the substances into fentanyl pills and powder.