According to mass state law, the entirety of any mixture containing a drug is counted as that drug, because they intend to sell the mixture. So yeah, you’re totally right to point out that it’s misleading, but it’s not the police trying to “sound impressive”, it’s just the legal definition of what the suspects were in possession of.

And really, less pure = more profit, because they have 100 lbs of something to sell regardless of what it contains, and a higher proportion of that being a cutting agent rather than pure fentanyl means they have higher profit margins, so it makes the $100k even less significant to them.

That would be logical, but that’s not how it works. 1-0 is Jan-Oct, vanity plates are in Nov, and commercial plates are in Dec. I think there are other plate types that fall into Nov/Dec too but I don’t know what they are.