Michael Gannon, an assistant special agent at the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Indianapolis district office, told Newsmax on Tuesday that arresting more drug dealers has led to a reduction in overdoses.

Overdose deaths in Indianapolis have decreases by almost 28% since 2023, with fentanyl related deaths declining by more than 45%.

“We’ve been working a lot of investigations that have involved fentanyl and especially fentanyl poisonings,” Gannon told “National Report.” “We’ve had about 42 arrests in the last several years. And what we saw in Indianapolis was very high numbers and unacceptable numbers, because I’m the first to say one life lost is one too many.”

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