Border Patrol seizes record-breaking amount of fentanyl

[Dennis Donovan]

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/

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According to other sources, this took place at a Port-of-Entry, not in the middle of a desert.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. I thought they were using those

special high power cars and trucks to fly over those walls.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Call me suspicious, but the timing seems a bit too auspicious.

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]

4. Yes, it's practically a given that in some garbled form, this will make it into the SOTU.

Can't wait.

[LuckyLib]

11. Yes indeed. Drugs are intercepted around the world at ports of entry and we

don't get a national bulletin. The reality show continues.

[Doreen]

3. Guess what. They did it without a fucking wall.

[MFGsunny]

7. [phone]

[Igel]

16. Actually, there's a rather large, long, tall wall.

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]

17. But it is not a big beautiful cement wall.

[DirtEdonE]

5. I hear they're allowing all the Adderall they can manufacture

Into the White House residential quarters.

[LakeSuperiorView]

13. The White House has a wall (fence) and it still gets in.

Trump's blown open pupils aren't because he spends so much time in the dark...

[Juneboarder]

6. Trump had this all planned out...

It's way to convenient to all of the sudden have a record breaking drug seizure at the border.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. "this took place at a Port-of-Entry"

Of course.

[hibbing]

9. Their calves are like cantaloupes n/t

[aggiesal]

10. Criminals in White Collars ...

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]

12. I thought tRump was babbling about China having the biggest Fentanyl drug business

at his “news” conference.

[dalton99a]

14. All found at the Nogales port of entry.

Link to tweet

[B Stieg]

15. So, no "calves the size of cantelopes" needed?

Thought not.