FBI Deputy Director Raia Gives Summer Heat 2.0 Statistics: Just Under 9,000 Arrests and 687 Kilograms of Fentanyl Seized, Sept. 29, 2026
September 29, 2026 · FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation · 0:01:00
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What happened
FBI Deputy Director Christopher Raia reported the statistics for the bureau’s Summer Heat 2.0 operation in a September 29, 2026, FBI recording. Raia said, as he stated the figures, that the operation produced just south of 9,000 arrests in the violent-crime space, compared with about 8,600 arrests in Summer Heat 1.0; recovered about 5,000 firearms, which he described as roughly a 120 percent increase from the prior year; seized about 687 kilograms of fentanyl, which he described as about a 63 percent increase; and identified or located about 1,400 children, which he described as just over a 30 percent increase.
Raia credited the operation’s concept to his predecessor, telling him, as the recording captures it, that he had been urged not to let the Summer Heat effort die and that he was building on momentum already created.
Why it matters
The figures are the FBI’s own accounting of its second annual summer violent-crime surge, and they give the bureau’s enforcement record a dated, checkable set of numbers — arrests, firearms, fentanyl weight, and located children — against which later operations can be compared.
Scoreboard watch
The Summer Heat 2.0 figures Raia stated on September 29, 2026 — just under 9,000 arrests, about 5,000 firearms recovered (a roughly 120 percent increase), about 687 kilograms of fentanyl seized (about a 63 percent increase), and about 1,400 children located (just over a 30 percent increase) — are dated, checkable claims flagged for the scoreboard editor. No verdict is published from this page.
Sources: FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Deputy Director Raia Gives Statistics for Summer Heat 2.0”, 2026-09-29 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-09-29). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.
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