EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Two men are facing multiple federal charges in connection with an alleged failed attempt to sell 10,000 fentanyl pills to a buyer in the parking lot of a Tucson, Arizona, business. A man was shot and a Drug Enforcement Administration agent dragged by a vehicle during the Jan. 26 bust, court records show.
The events unfolded after a confidential informant for the DEA contacted a suspected drug supplier to purchase fentanyl. The two agreed to meet at the GameStop store at 5:30 p.m. last Friday. Records show two men later identified as Saul Valenzuela Jr., 66, and Alan Kramer Palau, 30, arrived at a commercial strip next to a Walmart in a Volkswagen Jetta with Arizona license plates and that Valenzuela briefly went into the GameStop and came back to the car.
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It was then that DEA agents approached the Jetta through the driver’s and passenger’s side windows. Palau allegedly put the vehicle in reverse and began driving, with the DEA agent on the passenger’s side window becoming “entangled,” according to a criminal complaint filed Jan. 29 in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.