The City of San Francisco was approved Thursday for an Operation Overdrive designation at the request of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi. The announcement comes after Pelosi wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland in April asking for support for the fentanyl crisis plaguing San Francisco.
amount of fentanyl seized was enough to kill over 2.
1 million people"The designation of Operation Overdrive for San Francisco is welcome news and a strong step forward to combat fentanyl trafficking," Pelosi said in a statement. "The immense human cost of overdose is heartbreaking: stealing lives, tearing families apart and shattering communities."
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