Border Patrol seizes record-breaking amount of fentanyl
Source: KOLD.com Tucson
January 31, 2019 at 10:10 AM MST - Updated January 31 at 10:43 AM
TUCSON, AZ (KOLD News 13) - Border Patrol is hosting a news conference at 11 a.m. to talk about the largest fentanyl seizure in CBP history.
CBP will highlight their efforts to secure the border and prevent dangerous narcotics from entering the country.
KOLD News 13?s Kevin Adger will be at the news conference, which is at the the Port of Nogales.
Fentanyl is a pharmaceutical drug used to manage chronic pain. It is part of a group of drugs known as opioids and can elicit feelings of relaxation, pleasure and contentment. Fentanyl is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine, making it dangerous if abused.
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Read more: http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/2019/01/31/us-customs-border-protection-seizes-record-breaking-amount-fentanyl/
According to other sources, this took place at a Port-of-Entry, not in the middle of a desert.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)special high power cars and trucks to fly over those walls.
Lonestarblue
(10,011 posts)See, Democrats, we told you we need a wall to keep all those drugs out of the country (oh, and all those brown people, too).
LisaM
(27,813 posts)Can't wait.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)don't get a national bulletin. The reality show continues.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Igel
(35,320 posts)It's along the border in Nogales. That's generally the case--where there's no wall tends to be rugged terrain or open desert, while in cities and towns where it would be easy and convenient to get across the border there's a wall. That makes the port of entry easier for wheeled vehicles.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)Into the White House residential quarters.
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Trump's blown open pupils aren't because he spends so much time in the dark...
Juneboarder
(1,732 posts)It's way to convenient to all of the sudden have a record breaking drug seizure at the border.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)Of course.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)aggiesal
(8,917 posts)I'm sure that really expensive wall would have stopped this!
(Do I need the sarcasm thingee?)
Here's an article from the Washington Post about this bust.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-latest-border-officials-report-biggest-fentanyl-bust/2019/01/31/3d887db2-2586-11e9-b5b4-1d18dfb7b084_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ae7354462db6
a kennedy
(29,673 posts)at his news conference.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Thought not.