Days after the FBI announced the takedown of one of Kensington's largest drug trafficking gangs, the state attorney general, district attorneys and police leaders in southeastern Pennsylvania say efforts to crack down on fentanyl are paying off statewide.

In Center City on Wednesday, Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that through September of this year, law enforcement has seized more than 50 million doses of the powerful opioid.

Sunday said the number already tops what officials seized all of last year. Additionally, Sunday saw law enforcement take in more than 76,000 fentanyl pills so far in 2025.

In September, 2.7 million fentanyl doses and two guns were seized in Northeast Philadelphia.

In May, law enforcement took in more than 9 million doses and made seven arrests in North Philly in a ring officials said impacted all of the collar counties.

"It is non-stop. Fentanyl is very easy to traffic and transport," Sunday said. "You see how small this is right here. And unfortunately, when you have a demand, that's why we talk about the demand so much. Not only because it's the right thing to do as humans, but we have to attack both."

Leaders said this issue extends to communities across the state.

"This is not a neighborhood problem, ladies and gentlemen. It's not a Kensington problem, even though we were attacking Kensington last week, nor is it a city problem," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said. "This is a commonwealth problem. It's an American problem. It does not care. Fentanyl does not care about the borders."

Leaders said Wednesday's numbers do not include last week's raid of the Weymouth Street drug gang in Kensington.

Last Friday, the FBI conducted raids in Kensington in connection with a yearslong drug investigation into the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization. Federal prosecutors announced the indictment of 33 people involved with the drug gang, Jose Antonio Morales Nieves and Ramon Roman-Montanez, two of the drug trafficking organization's leaders.

Federal prosecutors allege the Weymouth Street drug gang ran its organization like a business since at least January 2016. The FBI seized "substantial volumes" of fentanyl and other narcotics and recovered dozens of guns off the streets during Friday's raids.

"This is one of the largest and most impressive gang takedowns that I've ever seen," FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday. "Not only are we removing guns and gang members and robbers and firearms, we are removing an entire coordinated section of gang violence permanently off the streets."

U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said Friday the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization investigation was part of a joint violent crime initiative with federal, state and local law enforcement called "Project Safe Neighborhood Recon," or "PSN Recon."

"[PSN Recon] is ultimately a criminal intelligence program. It's a way for all of us to consolidate and collect the intelligence from the entire law enforcement community and identify, target and investigate the worst violent actors in this city," Metcalf said Friday. "Because cases like this don't get formulated based on the word of one confidential informant or one ballistics match. You only put together cases like this, you only stop the violence, by targeting the worst actors based on the best intelligence. And the best intelligence doesn't live in one case, it lives everywhere."

While leaders say they will continue to keep the pressure up, they acknowledge that stopping the flow of fentanyl is tough. Bethel called it one of their greatest challenges.

"It's coming in at a significant pace, at a pace where folks who are not normally even drug dealers," Bethel said, "but it's so easy to acquire, can easily set up shop."

Sunday said that while law enforcement will continue to target supplies, they also have to work to get those suffering from addiction into treatment. Leaders say more than half of the fentanyl seized came from the Philadelphia area, and their message to those suppliers is: they're coming from you.