Border Patrol has recovered a 154-pound haul of methamphetamine from a Mexican drug trafficker in California. Agents discovered the drugs in a beige sedan near the El Centro Sector of the border in California.
Having been stopped, the sedan’s driver refused to consent to a search, but a K-9 sniffer dog established probable cause from outside the car, allowing Border Patrol to recover “five duffel bags with multiple packages wrapped in cellophane” from inside the vehicle.
These were found to contain 154 pounds of meth with an estimated street value of $278,000. The driver, who had previously been issued with a border crossing card, has been arrested, and his entry benefits have been rescinded.
The southern border crisis has stretched border officials’ resources thin and facilitated drug trafficking into the United States, with fentanyl, in particular, driving a significant increase in overdose deaths.
Meth and other notionally safer drugs are frequently found to be adulterated with fentanyl, with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) warning the synthetic opioid is now in “everything we seize.”
Donald Trump has vowed to seal the border if reelected, warning the spread of drugs, disease, and criminal aliens is “poisoning the blood” of the United States.
