Hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills found on a train were seized by customs officials on the Mexico border in Arizona this week.
A train was searched by officials from the US Customs and Border Protection as it came into Nogales, Arizona on Wednesday.
The train was carrying 736,200 fentanyl pills and 196 pounds of methamphetamines in one rail car, the Port Director Michael Humphries said.
Another batch of the deadly drug was discovered the day before when the port seized nearly 150,000 pills hidden under the seats of a vehicle.
The US Customs and Border Protection released images of the drugs that had been found on the train in Arizona
More than one million pills were seized by law enforcement in LA in a search in July this year. DEA officials said yesterday that enough fentanyl had been confiscated in 2022 to kill all the people living in America
On Monday, 10,400 fentanyl pills and 6.4 pounds of meth was found in tubes usually used for construction adhesive.
The seizures come as Mexican drug cartels continue to flood the southern border with fentanyl, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Randy Grossman told Fox News Digital.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said yesterday it had captured 50.6 million fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl and 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder during the year, calling it the equivalent of ‘more than 379million potentially deadly doses.’
Owing to its low price and relative ease of production, fentanyl has supplanted prescription opioids and heroin in the illegal drugs market.
A potentially fatal dose is just two milligrams.
The DEA said the deadly man-made opioid, which caused only a fraction of overdose deaths a decade ago, is now the ‘deadliest drug threat facing this country.’
‘It is a highly addictive man-made opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin. Just two milligrams of fentanyl, the small amount that fits on the tip of a pencil, is considered a potentially deadly dose,’ it said.
The DEA’s finds were more than double the amount they seized in 2021 – enough to kill all 330million people living in the US.
A woman was jailed in Maryland this week for involuntary manslaughter after her two-month-old son was killed by the lethal drug.
Heather Marie Frazier received a five year sentence, followed by a five year supervised suspension.
Heather Marie Farzier will serve five years in prison and five years on supervised probation after pleading guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter
Jacob Sayre, 17, is being tried as an adult for the suspected drug deal, and was booked on second-degree murder, endangering the welfare of a child, and delivery of a controlled substance on December 18 in Ozark, Missouri
Cops said the alleged drug deal ended sophomore student Victoria Jones’ life prematurely, after the youngsters became acquainted at their local church
Her partner and the father of the child Jeremy Whitney Frazier was also jailed for five years earlier this year.
Their son, Grayson, died in 2020 when the parents used a contaminated bathroom in their basement apartment to prepare his bottles.
A 17-year-old boy in Missouri is being tried as an adult for murder after giving a girl ecstasy laced with fentanyl.
Jacob Sayre, 17, is being tried as an adult for the suspected drug deal, and was booked on second-degree murder, endangering the welfare of a child, and delivery of a controlled substance, on December 18 in Ozark, Missouri.
Cops said the alleged drug deal transpired in September, after the youngsters became acquainted at their local church – and ultimately ended sophomore student Victoria Jones’ life prematurely.
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