


Preferably, the names sound pretty cool, and they're often a closely held secret until the operation is over and the suspects are in custody. When the federal government recently announced it had stopped 10,000 pounds of fentanyl from entering Arizona and Southern California from Mexico, the special name attached to the counternarcotics initiative was somewhat confusing: Operations Blue Lotus and Four Horsemen.īut this kind of cryptic labeling is not uncommon in federal law enforcement, where agents like to show they are serious about tackling drug traffickers and other criminals by giving their efforts an intriguing code name. Watch Video: DEA warns of 'rainbow fentanyl' as overdoses surge across the US
