US Customs and Border Patrol officers confiscated greater than half a ton of fentanyl — over 4 million capsules — within the largest seizure of the drug in company historical past, officers introduced this week.
The jaw-dropping amount of lethal opioids was found by CBP officers on the border Port of Lukeville in Arizona after they stopped a 20-year-old driver of a pickup truck that was hauling a sports activities recreation automobile on a trailer.
After noticing a number of “anomalies” within the body of the trailer, officers pulled the truck off to the aspect for additional inspection,” the company stated.
A K9 workforce revealed 234 packages of medicine stashed within the body containing roughly 4 million blue fentanyl capsules.
“That is the biggest fentanyl seizure in CBP’s historical past, and displays our unwavering willpower to guard our nation and to disrupt the legal actions of ruthless drug cartels,” Troy Miller, CBP Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Commissioner, stated in an announcement.
“On daily basis, CBP officers and brokers are on our entrance line, utilizing their eager instincts and the newest know-how to stop lethal medicine from coming into our nation and poisoning our communities.”
On July 12, CBP brokers on the similar port of entry seized 272 kilos of methamphetamine when a 45-year-old Mexican citizen was additionally driving a pickup truck towing a trailer.
Once more with the assistance of a K9 workforce CBP brokers found 39 packages of the drug and a further 5 kilos of cocaine, the company stated.
Between each main drug busts, officers say the estimated avenue worth is greater than $12.6 million. Each males have been arrested.
“This is a gigantic quantity of harmful medicine that officers on the Port of Lukeville prevented from reaching communities all through the US,” stated Guadalupe Ramirez, Director of Discipline Operations, Tucson Discipline Workplace.
The Submit has reached out to CBP for added info on the arrests.
The Port of Lukeville is about 150 miles southeast of Tucson.
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