As fentanyl crisis plagues Los Angeles schools, major busts reported in Arizona and Colorado
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The battle against the nation's fentanyl crisis was on full display this week, as authorities made major busts in Arizona and Colorado. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, education officials were contending with a string of student overdoses.
The Phoenix Police Department reported Friday that its officers had nabbed more than one million fentanyl pills and arrested two people in the biggest seizure in the city's history.
In Mack, Colorado, on Wednesday, just east of the Utah state line, deputies conducting a traffic stop discovered about 90,000 fentanyl pills in a vehicle, along with 2.4 pounds of fentanyl powder, the Mesa County Sheriff's Office reports. A 22-year-old driver was arrested.
Chaos erupted overnight as police tried to break up a pro-Palestinian encampment at Emerson College in Boston, the latest flashpoint in a growing movement on college campuses around the country protesting Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. Hundreds of people have been arrested in Massachusetts, Texas and California during the tense protests, following several rounds of arrests in New York in recent days.