Prosecutors indict 26 people for alleged international drug trafficking

SAN DIEGO - Federal prosecutors in San Diego announced today that 26 people have been indicted for alleged drug smuggling and trafficking as

part of a two-year investigation that led to the seizure of nearly 500,000 counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the charges stem from an investigation into an alleged international drug-trafficking conspiracy, which

prosecutors say involved the trafficking of drugs from Mexico into the United States.

Prosecutors say traffickers coordinated shipments into the United States of pills that contained fentanyl, powder...