CBP makes largest fentanyl seizure in history

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents assigned to the Port of Lukeville, Arizona, made the largest fentanyl seizure in the agency’s history.

In total, they were confiscated Four million fentanyl pillsaccording to Tucson Sector Field Operations Director Guadalupe Ramirez.

The drugs, which weigh more than 1,000 poundswere found last Tuesday in the frame of a utility trailer that a person was driving and trying to cross through that port of entry into the United States.

This blow to organized crime comes after Increased efforts at border crossings in California and Arizona in recent months, fearing that Mexican drug cartels would move their smuggling channel eastward.

In another incident, on July 17, the agents managed to seize 380,250 fentanyl pills that were hidden in glass panels. A day later, on July 18, they reported the seizure of 40 kilos of methamphetamines that were being transported in a vehicle.

Fentanyl seizures in the Tucson Sector at the Nogales Port of Entry have surpassed 2.2 million pills this fiscal year, according to CBP.

The synthetic opioid is a leading cause of death in the United States, resulting in an estimated 74,702 overdose deaths in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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