According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, millions of fentanyl tablets were found hidden among a string of green beans that smugglers tried to bring across the U.S.-Mexico border in Otay Mesa.
According to CBP, 3.52 million fentanyl tablets were hidden inside cardboard boxes filled with fresh green beans inside a tractor trailer driven by a 48-year-old man. The contents of the truck were inspected by his K-9 drug detector and the agent found pills. The pill was estimated to be worth $21 million.
About 775 pounds of fentanyl were seized. The driver was detained on drug trafficking charges and handed over to immigration, CBP said.
Mexican leaders and the Biden administration Last week we announced a partnership To fight the fentanyl trafficking going north and the gun trafficking going south. The same day, the US Department of Justice announced fentanyl trafficking charges against dozens of Sinaloa Cartel members, including the son of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman.
reported by NBC News Most of the illicit supplies of potent synthetic opioids entering the United States are manufactured in Mexico from raw materials sent from China.
Learn more about the impact of the fentanyl crisis on your community in NBC 7’s in-depth project Poison Pills: Fighting San Diego’s Fentanyl Crisis. look here.
