(Kansas City, MO) — Federal drug agents are warning about a new fentanyl threat. The executive director of the Midwest High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) in Kansas City is warning about a new packaging for the deadly drug fentanyl. Daniel Neill says dealers are mixing fentanyl mixed with lidocaine and coloring it purple. Neill says making it colorful is a marketing ploy, designed to attract younger drug users, including children.
“They’re trying to get a new customer, a new customer base by trying to get them younger and younger and more socially acceptable,” Neill says, “which it shouldn’t be, but they’re trying to make it more relevant to mainstream folks by making them look like candy.”
The Johnson County, Missouri Sheriff’s Office recently posted on social media that their investigators had seized some purple fentanyl…