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Border officials in Arizona seize 102K fentanyl pills, 14 pounds of fentanyl powder hidden in ice chest
NOGALES, Ariz. – Border officers in Arizona seized extra fentanyl being smuggled into the U.S. amid a flood of deadly medicine pouring throughout the southern border.
Customs and Border Safety officers on the Nogales Port of Entry seized 102,000 fentanyl drugs and 14 kilos of fentanyl powder at a port of entry in Arizona Monday, based on stories from the port director.
The fentanyl drugs, with .31 kilos of cocaine, had been hidden in a big ice chest, based on Port Director Michael Humphries.
Border officers in Arizona seized fentanyl drugs being smuggled into the U.S. Sept. 5, 2022. (U.S. Customs and Border Safety)
Fentanyl, a robust opioid as much as 50 occasions stronger than heroin, was chargeable for 71,238 of the report 107,000 deadly drug overdoses in the USA final 12 months, based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
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“House was created by eradicating the froth insulation within the partitions of the ice chest and changing it with the fentanyl packages,” Humphries defined.
Fentanyl is introduced throughout the southern border primarily by two drug trafficking organizations — the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Era Cartel, based on authorities.
In April 2022, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration introduced a nationwide spike in fentanyl-related mass-overdose occasions, and fentanyl has develop into a key focus of the 2022 midterm elections as a neighborhood and a southern border situation.
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Humphries’ officers seized greater than 200,000 fentanyl drugs hidden in a secret compartment of a automobile on Saturday.
Round 47,000 of these drugs had been rainbow-colored. Federal officers have warned the coloring is a brand new pattern meant to drive younger folks to the lethal drug.
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