Written in STATES he 1/8/2024 · 06:50 hs
Last update: 1/8/2024 · 06:58 hs
LUCKEVILLE, Arizona.- More than 4 million pills fentanyl were seized by the United States Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP).
Guadalupe Ramirez, director of Field Operations in the Tucson Sector of the CBP reported that this is the shipment of fentanyl largest seizure in the history of the operation, at the Lukeville, Arizona, checkpoint.
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At the border port with Sonoyta, Sonora, U.S. immigration officers detected just over four million pills in this individual shipment, which weighed 453 kilograms.
According to information from Guadalupe Ramirez, director of Field Operations at the CBP Tucson Sector, federal agents made the discovery hidden inside a utility trailer that a person was driving and attempting to cross through that port of entry.
On Wednesday, other seizures by CBP officers at the Nogales, Arizona, border crossings were also announced, according to Port Director Michael W. Humphries.
On the 17th of this month, the agents managed to secure two drugs, one of 380,250 pills fentanyl that were hidden in the glass panels and on that same day, in the exit lanes towards Nogales, Sonora, they seized an AK-47 rifle and two thousand useful cartridges.
Then, on July 18, they reported the seizure of 40 kilos of methamphetamines, which were being transported in a vehicle.
AMLO recognizes production of fentanyl in Mexico
Despite having denied it on repeated occasions, in April of this year, the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He admitted in an interview on the CBS program “60 Minutes” that Mexico does produce fentanyla synthetic opioid considered addictive and dangerous. But he said that little of it is produced in the country, since production is also recorded in the United States and Canada.
The Mexican president made the statement to the US program despite the fact that he had been denying it in his morning press conferences since the beginning of his term in 2018.
In his five and a half years of government, Lopez Obrador has faced accusations from the US State Department for the production of the fentanyla topic that has been present in conversations between both countries.
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