ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The drug overdose deaths of Rebecca Kiessling’s sons five years ago still weighs heavy on her heart. And while she still sheds tears for them, she isn’t losing one ounce of sleep over the arrest of Venezuelan drug cartel leader and dictator Nicholas Maduro.

Rebecca Kiessling is a Rochester Hills lawyer, activist, and mother of 20-year-old Caleb and 17-year-old Kyler. They died in 2020 after taking Percocet laced with fentanyl. Kiessling told The Steve Gruber Show on Monday that she’s “thrilled” the Trump administration captured Maduro.

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“It’s a whole cartel,” she told Gruber, stating that it’s not simply one man pushing cocaine that’s killing people. “Once [the cocaine] it arrives [in the U.S.] the cartel adds fentanyl to the cocaine,” Kiessling said.

In addition, Kiessling explains that people took cocaine for decades without dying from overdoses. The change? Additives like fentanyl.

“It takes a lot to die from cocaine,” Kiessling said, referencing the “weekend warriors” who did lines of coke in the 70s and 80s on the weekend. “Now its nothing to die [from cocaine] because there’s fentanyl in it.”

Kiessling testified before Congress in 2023 and applauded the actions of the Donald Trump administration and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “We’re saving lives and defending America and that’s our number one job,” Kiessling said, referring to one of the main goals of the federal government.