Police and the Fentanyl Drug Problem in New Mexico
警方與新墨西哥州的芬太尼藥品問題
Introduction
The DEA is a drug police group. From 2023 to 2025, they let some fentanyl drugs enter New Mexico. They did this to find and catch the drug bosses.
DEA 是一個緝毒警察組織。從 2023 年到 2025 年，他們允許部分芬太尼藥品進入新墨西哥州，目的是為了找出並逮捕毒品集團的首領。
Main Body
The DEA watched the drugs but did not take them. They wanted to find the big leaders of the drug groups. In June 2023, they saw 74,000 pills in Albuquerque. They did not stop the pills because they wanted to stop the whole group later.
DEA 監視著這些藥品但並未沒收。他們想要找出毒品集團的高層首領。2023 年 6 月，他們在阿爾伯克基發現了 74,000 顆藥丸。他們沒有攔截這些藥丸，是因為他們希望稍後能將整個集團一網打盡。
One agent, David Howell, did not like this. He said fentanyl is very dangerous. He said the DEA must take the drugs immediately to keep people safe. He told the government that the DEA broke the rules.
一名特工 David Howell 對此並不認同。他表示芬太尼非常危險。他認為 DEA 必須立即沒收藥品以確保民眾安全。他向政府舉報 DEA 違反了規定。
The government looked at the problem in 2024. They said the DEA did not do anything wrong. The DEA says their work was legal. Now, the rules allow police to choose when to take the drugs.
政府在 2024 年審查了這個問題。他們表示 DEA 沒有任何違規行為。DEA 則稱其行動合法。目前的規定允許警方自行決定何時沒收藥品。
Conclusion
The DEA says their plan was legal. Other people say the plan was dangerous for the city.
DEA 表示他們的計畫合法。其他人則認為該計畫對城市而言非常危險。
Vocabulary Learning
🕒 Time and Action
Look at how the text talks about the past. When we tell a story about things that already happened, we often add -ed to the action word.
Patterns from the text:
- Watch → Watched
- Want → Wanted
- Look → Looked
Special Cases (Irregular): Some words change completely instead of adding -ed. These are very common in A2 English:
- See → Saw
- Say → Said
- Do → Did
💡 The Word "BUT"
Use but to connect two opposite ideas. It is like a bridge between a 'Yes' and a 'No'.
Example from the story: "The DEA watched the drugs but did not take them."
(They did one thing, but they did NOT do the other.)