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| Border Patrol Agents Seize Nearly 275 Pounds of Fentanyl in 2 San Diego Sector Stops |
| 2024-09-21 |
| [ToSD] Border Patrol San Diego Sector agents seized more than 100 pounds of fentanyl pills this week at a station north of Camp Pendleton. The search and seizure, the second of two significant fentanyl finds in the last two weeks, took place near Avenida Vista Hermosa on Interstate 5, according to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. At approximately 4 a.m. Thursday, agents assigned to the San Clemente Border Patrol Station stopped a suspicious silver sedan, driven by an adult male U.S. citizen, on I-5. A Border Patrol K9 team trained to detect the presence of concealed people, narcotics and other contraband conducted a non-intrusive search of the vehicle and alerted agents to search further. Agents who inspected the vehicle’s trunk discovered plastic-wrapped packages inside of black trash bags, consistent with how smuggled narcotics are transported. The suspected narcotics, vehicle and driver were sent to a nearby Border Patrol station for further investigation. At the station, agents removed 40 cellophane-wrapped packages containing blue pills. They tested the pills and received a positive result for fentanyl. The total weight of the fentanyl pills was 105 pounds. The driver and the drugs were turned over to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department for prosecution on state charges. The vehicle was seized by U.S. Border Patrol. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #1 Look for more stories like this with an election just around the corner. But don't look for any shortages of fentanyl on the streets. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-09-21 14:51 |