The Rocky Mountain division of the Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than 1 million pills during an October enforcement operation, the third most in the country, federal officials said.

Colorado agents alone seized more than 665,000 potentially deadly pills and 2.41 kilograms of fentanyl powder, the equivalent of 1.2 million lethal doses, DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division Special Agent in Charge David Olesky said.

The division’s other three states — Utah, Montana and Wyoming — seized another 387,000 pills and 1.04 kilograms of powder, about 520,000 lethal doses, according to the DEA.

Fentanyl is a deadly synthetic opioid that’s pressed into counterfeit pills or mixed into heroin, cocaine and other street drugs. Federal officials believe 76,516 people died from drug overdoses b

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