(FamilyConservationPAC.com) – Officers from the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) department in Lukeville, Arizona, recently made what the agency describes as their largest-ever seizure of fentanyl.
Approximately four million blue fentanyl pills, weighing over 1,000 pounds, were found by port of entry officers.
As part of two special operations aimed at fentanyl smuggling and the cartel bosses who bring the lethal narcotic into the United States, the agency made numerous significant fentanyl busts throughout July, including this one.
Port of #Lukeville, #AZ makes the largest fentanyl seizure in @CBP OFO history, 4 MILLION FENTANYL PILLS, weighing over 1,000 LBS were seized. The drugs were discovered concealed in the frame of a utility trailer. Outstanding work by team Lukeville! pic.twitter.com/KsjIhu2kPo
— Director of Field Operations Guadalupe H. Ramirez (@DFOTucson) July 30, 2024
This Monday, CBP officials released a statement stating that the historic seizure happened on July 1 when agents at the Lukeville Port of Entry came upon a 20-year-old American citizen from Arizona who was trying to enter the country through Mexico.
Due to the port’s close vicinity to beach leisure zones in Mexico, it is not unusual for the man from Arizona to be driving a 2011 pickup truck while pulling a sport recreational vehicle on a utility trailer.
The officers conducted a secondary inspection area to examine the truck, trailer, and car in further detail. During that search, they found irregularities all over the trailer’s frame.
The four million fentanyl tablets concealed in the trailer’s frame were found in 234 bundles, thanks to the assistance of a K-9 detection team during the search.
“This is an enormous amount of dangerous drugs that officers at the Port of Lukeville prevented from reaching communities throughout the United States,” said Guadalupe Ramirez, Director of Field Operations, Tucson Field Office, praising the Port of Lukeville.
According to CBP Senior Official Carrying Out Commissioner Troy Miller’s Duties, “Every day, CBP officers and agents are on our front line, using their keen instincts and the latest technology to prevent deadly drugs from entering our country and poisoning our communities.”
Miller also praised the effectiveness of the ongoing counterdrug operations and the officers involved in the seizure.
A few days later, authorities at the same port of entry announced that over 270 pounds of methamphetamine had been found, according to CBP.
The second seizure happened on July 12 when a 45-year-old male Mexican national attempted to enter the country while towing a utility trailer in a 2007 Ford F-150 pickup truck. During a non-intrusive x-ray check, investigators found 39 parcels containing roughly 272 pounds of methamphetamine and five pounds of cocaine.
The inspection was conducted by a K-9 inspection team.
The CBP has estimated that the street value of these two noteworthy seizures is more than $12.6 million.
🚨 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers announced the largest fentanyl seizure in agency history.
A U.S. citizen was caught smuggling 4 million fentanyl pills weighing over 1,000 pounds in his pickup truck at a port of entry. pic.twitter.com/kynJ4smjWl
— House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) August 2, 2024
Operation Apollo-Arizona and Operation Plaza Spike were two coordinated counterdrug operations that included these two drug seizures.
According to the agency, Operation Apollo-Arizona is a cooperative counter-fentanyl operation with an intelligence-gathering objective.
The operation focuses law enforcement operations on severing the supply of drugs and chemicals, gathering and exchanging intelligence, and utilizing beneficial alliances.
Operation Plaza Spike aims to take down the cartels and plaza lords that supply lethal amounts of fentanyl and other illegal synthetic drugs.
The “plazas,” which are cartel areas just south of the United States and serve as natural logistical chokepoints for the cartels’ activities, are the targets of its intended disruption of operations.
The Drug Enforcement Administration reports that 107,941 Americans died in 2022 alone from drug poisonings; fentanyl and synthetic opioids accounted for an astounding 70% of these deaths.
For Americans ages 18 to 45, fentanyl continues to be the most common cause of mortality.
In a campaign dubbed “One Pill Can Kill,” the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) alerted the public that tests revealed that one in seven fake tablets sold by Mexican drug gangs contained a lethal amount of fentanyl.
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