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In the months after her 20-year-old son's death from fentanyl toxicity, Christy Chavez fixated on the hands it took to deliver the poisonous pill to New Mexico's streets.

"From the Chinese suppliers to the chemical labs hidden in the forests, to the transporters, the cartels and finally the dealer," Chavez said last week. "I never once imagined that it was in the hands of the Drug Enforcement Administration."

It's impossible to know how many people overdosed as a consequence of the DEA's decision to monitor 鈥� but not seize 鈥� loads of fentanyl pills in an effort to build larger drug trafficking cases in New Mexico from 2023 through 2025.

At least 300,000 pills, and likely many more, reached the streets, according to a DEA agent-turned-whistleblower who formally complained beginning in mid-2023 that a group of DEA agents and federal prosecutors used too much discretion in allowing dangerous amounts of fentanyl to be distributed in New Mexico.

"I believe these decisions endanger American lives," agent David Howell stated in a response after the Office of Professional Responsibility and the Office of Special Counsel found in 2024 that no specific danger to public health and safety had occurred by not seizing the synthetic opioid 鈥� the same drug President Donald Trump has designated a "weapon of mass destruction."

Chavez, who moved from Rio Rancho to Grants after her son Jesse's death, said she read the 近距离内射合集's investigative report nearly a week ago about the whistleblower's account.

"I'm angry. I've been angry since I learned of this 鈥� the addiction, the crime, the loss of life," Chavez told the Journal.

The DEA initially denied allegations of what's known as "drug walking," but on Wednesday, the DEA administrator in Washington asked for an outside investigation by a watchdog agency.

In to the U.S. Justice Department鈥檚 Inspector General, DEA Administrator Terry Cole wrote that an internal probe was necessary because 鈥渢he allegations have generated significant public attention and have raised questions regarding DEA鈥檚 operational decisions, supervisory oversight, and response to concerns.鈥�

Chavez is hoping for some accountability.

鈥淭his is the greatest betrayal. I think about whether there was a chance my son could be here today if only they had seized that little blue pill,鈥� Chavez said, 鈥渁nd that it might have been one of the hundreds of thousands of pills.鈥�

The battle started in 2023

Jesse Chavez was "great at math" and planned to leave for trade school in five months. He moved with his family from Grants to Rio Rancho in middle school and graduated from high school online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

One teacher remarked on Facebook after his death that Jesse had "spunk."

"We were a normal family with normal struggles, and my son was a normal teen when all of that changed in 2023. This battle lasted a short five months," Chavez said.

"All his friends had their troubles as teenagers. They had their rebellion. My son didn't. I have tattoos, and as odd as it is, my son had zero. He wasn't into that."

Then his demeanor changed. He developed headaches. He started dating a girl he knew from high school. One day in June 2023, Jesse approached his mother, who was working from home.

"He said, 'Mom, I have to talk to you. Last month, I started taking pills. I couldn't stop, and I didn't know what to do.'"

She logged off her computer and took him to the hospital.

"They said they couldn't help him. Then I found a detox center on my own."

She drove him to a Las Cruces treatment facility.

鈥楬e鈥檚 dead! He鈥檚 dead!鈥�

Dec. 21, 2023, marked the winter solstice. It was four days before Christmas, and plans were underway to make gingerbread houses with friends who had just arrived. When she called her son to dinner, Christy Chavez heard a loud snore coming from his bedroom.

"I knocked on the door. I heard another snore, but he doesn't snore that loud."

She demanded Jesse open the door. When he didn't, she forced it open and found him lying face up on his bed with foam in his mouth.

"I screamed, 'He's dead! He's dead!'"

While one friend called 911, another helped her pull Jesse off the bed.

"I knew when I held my son in my hands that he was gone and it was too late. He was my only child. No biological grandchildren. It was me and him against the world. He had dreams. His whole life was stolen from him."

She wonders how he got the fentanyl. Only half a pill was found in his room.

Healing a broken heart

As is common in long-term drug conspiracy investigations, DEA agents seek court-authorized wiretaps on target suspects' phones to learn about drug networks, communications and criminal activity.

But Howell, a 19-year DEA agent and military veteran, said he noticed beginning in 2023 that agents learned of specific instances in which large amounts of fentanyl were about to be sold or smuggled into the city. And they didn鈥檛 intervene.

They didn't stop the deliveries "because they feared any seizure of drugs would ruin their investigation," Howell said.

Weeks or months passed during these highly covert investigations before alleged traffickers and members of their organizations were indicted, according to federal records reviewed by the Journal. Howell contends local law enforcement officers making traffic stops could have seized the fentanyl without tipping off the targets.

He said he and another agent stopped two of the suspects' vehicles that year and found quantities of cocaine and fentanyl but were later admonished for doing so.

Those DEA operations were "never about seizing drugs from the streets," he stated. "Instead, this was all about continuing the investigation no matter what unintended consequences were caused by allowing these large amounts of fentanyl to reach the public."

Chavez said she gets together once a month with some of Jesse's friends, who drive 70 miles each way from Rio Rancho.

"They come to see me. It's literally everything to me," she wrote in a Facebook post. In April, she wrote, they snoozed on the couch, ate pizza and watched 鈥淟ike Mike鈥� and 鈥淣ight at the Museum.鈥�

"I hope they know just how much showing up adds bandages to my wounded heart," she wrote. "Jesse would be so thankful."

But last week, after learning about the DEA's fentanyl investigation tactics, Chavez said she stayed up all night making signs. She held them in Downtown Albuquerque on Friday to send federal authorities a message.

"I had no plan except to make them understand that we know. ... I am a mother, my son has died, and I know what they did."