Law enforcement and FBI at Weymouth Street between Clearfield and Allegheny Avenue on Friday. Read more Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer

by Jesse Bunch Published Oct. 29, 2025, 5:40 p.m. ET

Marking what they called a “high water mark” in the effort to combat the region’s fentanyl crisis, state and local officials announced Wednesday that they had seized 50 million doses of the deadly synthetic drug in raids across Pennsylvania this year.

Around 27 million of those doses were taken from the Philadelphia region, Attorney General Dave Sunday said during a news conference in which he pledged that his office and local law enforcement officials were “united in a common mission to stop the flow of fentanyl and traffickers.”

“Fentanyl has replaced heroin as the opioid mos

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