DEA’s Brian Besser Says Denver A Key Area For Fentanyl Drug Enterprises, Fighting To Curb Trend – CBS Denver

(CBS4) — For most, the recent cases involving fentanyl that have made headlines in our communities is a first sign of an emerging crisis.

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For Brian Besser, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration Denver Field Division, it is a fight they’ve been waging for years.

“Injecting fentanyl into conventional street drugs honestly is nothing more than pragmatic business sense by greed-driven and profit-driven enterprises,” Besser said. “They don’t care who dies. They just care about the base line, and that’s money.”

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Besser, who sat down for a one-on-one conversation with CBS4 reporter Karen Morfitt, says part of why we are seeing more of the deadly drug is because it’s synthetic or man-made.

Drug enterprises, he says, are…