Border officials report biggest fentanyl bust ever, capturing nearly 254 pounds

[THE_DEVIL]

PHOENIX (AP) - The Latest on a record fentanyl seizure at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona (all times local):


11:30 a.m.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they have made their biggest fentanyl bust ever, capturing nearly 254 pounds (114 kilograms) of the deadly synthetic opioid in Arizona.


The Nogales CBP Port Director Michael Humphries said Thursday that the drug was seized Saturday from a tractor-trailer carrying produce from Mexico after it was stopped for inspection at the border crossing.

Agents also seized an additional 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) of fentanyl pills and a large cache of methamphetamine.

The Mexican man driving the truck was arrestedhttps://local12.com/news/nation-wor...entanyl-bust-ever-capturing-nearly-254-pounds

 

[Funky Bunch]

Hidden under a pile of fruit, just like in Narcos

 

[CelticHawk]

Build that wall, build that wall!!!

 

[SSG T]

So, which part of the wall would have stopped this?

 

[UNIowaHawk]

Hidden under a pile of fruit, just like in Narcos

I’m only through episode two, but wasn’t it potatoes?

 

[Funky Bunch]

I’m only through episode two, but wasn’t it potatoes?

I'm actually talking about Narcos Mexico

Spoiler: Spoiler

Watermelons

 

[lucas80]

Build that wall, build that wall!!!

Why? This shipment was stopped because of technology used to scan the truck. The vast majority of illegal drugs come through ports of entry like Nogales.
Or, portals of entry, as Trump likes to say.

 

[Funky Bunch]

Why? This shipment was stopped because of technology used to scan the truck. The vast majority of illegal drugs come through ports of entry like Nogales.
Or, portals of entry, as Trump likes to say.

Nonsense. I heard they train coyotes to carry them over the border.

 

[BABiscuit]

Just think how bad that would hurt if it hit you on the head being thrown over a wall. That's why we need to be able to see through the wall.

 

[ThorneStockton]

Close The Gate! Close The Gate!

 

[Joes Place]

Close The Gate! Close The Gate!

Build a Moat! Build a Moat!

 

[rchawk]

Build a Moat! Build a Moat!

Yeah! Mexico will pay for it!

 

[Joes Place]

Shit! Could'a killed nearly 1 in 5 Americans!

 

[lucas80]

Imagine all the low information Trump voters hearing about this on Facebook, then forwarding on the link stating that this was hidden in a caravan of MS13 thugs who had duct taped a bunch of women's mouths closed while coming through the desert in a VW.

 

[Rudolph]

 

[naturalmwa]

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

 

[ihhawk]

If there wasnt an existing fence, they could just drive trucks across the desert.

 

[Joes Place]

If there wasnt an existing fence, they could just drive trucks across the desert.

Yes; we know that. And no one is debating the necessity of that fence.

 

[ihhawk]

Yes; we know that. And no one is debating the necessity of that fence.

We the argument is that fences, walls, barriers are immoral you have to admit that the existing fences need to be part of the discussion.

If Obama was POTUS today and asked Congress for border wall funding, I promise you that it would get passed.

This is a Trump victory lap issue

 

[ThorneStockton]

If there wasnt an existing fence, they could just drive trucks across the desert.

Why is a wall needed when the fence already forces trucks to designated ports of entry?

 

[rchawk]

Why is a wall needed when the fence already forces trucks to designated ports of entry?

Because a fence doesn't keep illegal aliens out. That is the argument. The people who pick your lettuce and blueberries and a lot of other stuff you buy in the produce section should not be picking your lettuce and blueberries and a lot of other stuff you find in the produce section.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

If there wasnt an existing fence, they could just drive trucks across the desert.

I’m not sure why they just didn’t gun their V16, 1000 horsepower, armored supercars through the gates at the POE. Some politician told me one can catch them!

 

[lucas80]

Nonsense. I heard they train coyotes to carry them over the border.

The four legged kind, or the shifty eyed brown skinned kind?

 

[lucas80]

Because a fence doesn't keep illegal aliens out. That is the argument. The people who pick your lettuce and blueberries and a lot of other stuff you buy in the produce section should not be picking your lettuce and blueberries and a lot of other stuff you find in the produce section.

Why not just shift enforcement to documenting workers? That would be a lot cheaper, right? We do need some cheap labor in this country.

 

[rchawk]

The four legged kind, or the shifty eyed brown skinned kind?

I was thinking of the four-legged kind. I hit one once driving down a rural highway. I felt terrible, it looked like a small dog. If it was a she (I didn't look that closely) I hope she didn't have puppies somewhere.

 

[rchawk]

Why not just shift enforcement to documenting workers? That would be a lot cheaper, right? We do need some cheap labor in this country.

That works. I could still have L on my BLT. Maybe T too.

 

[noleit]

Wouldn’t military drones do a better job then a wall?

 

[prymethyme]

 

[ihhawk]

Why is a wall needed when the fence already forces trucks to designated ports of entry?

Fence in additional places.

 

[ThorneStockton]

Fence in additional places.

Just a fence? I wonder why the Mexican drug smugglers didn't just drive the truck where there is no fence that you say needs one.

 

[MitchLL]

You can see the MAGA hat impression on his forehead. Was he arrested at a Trump rally or somewhere else?

 

[fsu1jreed]

The people who pick your lettuce and blueberries and a lot of other stuff you buy in the produce section should not be picking your lettuce and blueberries and a lot of other stuff you find in the produce section.

Okay, are you ready to pay 3+ times more for said produce?

 

[rchawk]

Okay, are you ready to pay 3+ times more for said produce?

Nope. See my posts above. Let the pickers in, document them as lucas said, and we have a solution to me making an affordable BLT in my kitchen. Everybody wins.

 

[Barn Mate]

My uncle Marv weighs 254. Just sayin

 

[rchawk]

My uncle Marv weighs 254. Just sayin

We will need more pickers.

 

[Joes Place]

We the argument is that fences, walls, barriers are immoral

Huh?

 

[Kenneth Griffin]