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A tribal police car drives past a boarded up apartment complex on Main Street of Eagle Butte, South Dakota on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. South Dakota Searchlight photo by Makenzie Huber.

Noem’s ‘banish the cartels’ obscures statewide drug problem, tribal leaders say

By John Hult of South Dakota Searchlight 07/06/2024

Editor’s note: This South Dakota Searchlight story is the second in a series exploring the influence of drug cartels in…

Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed before a press conference regarding a major drug bust, at the office of the New York Attorney General, Sept. 23, 2016, in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Drug cartels: A link in every illegal fentanyl pill in South Dakota, not just on reservations

By John Hult of South Dakota Searchlight 06/12/2024

Editor’s note: This South Dakota Searchlight story is the first in a series exploring the influence of drug cartels in…

Gov. Kristi Noem enters House chamber to deliver joint address on border. Dakota Scout photo by Jonathan Ellis

Mexican drug cartels operating in South Dakota, Noem claims

By Jonathan Ellis of The Dakota Scout and Austin Goss, The Dakota Scout 01/31/2024

PIERRE — Mexican drug cartels are operating within the borders of South Dakota, endangering its citizens because the Biden administration……