Fentanyl-stuffed tamales intercepted at Mexico-U.S. border

[Judi Lynn]

United States customs officers found fentanyl hidden in an unusual way this week at the Mexico-U.S. border.TWITTER @CBPPORTDIRNOG

Officers also found new ‘rainbow fentanyl pills’ earlier in the week
Published on Friday, October 14, 2022

Tamales are not always stuffed with delicacies such as chicharrón en salsa verde or mole. They can also be filled with fentanyl pills, United States authorities discovered Wednesday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers found more than 2,000 such pills inside tamales at the border crossing between Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Arizona.

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“Each tamale contained a baggie of blue pills hidden inside. Excellent work by officers and K9 teams maintaining a high level of vigilance,” he added above photos of the illicit consignment.

Link to tweet

This week, U.S. agents at the Nogales port of entry also seized a kind of rainbow-colored fentanyl pills that they hadn’t seen before.

Mexican drug cartels are major exporters of fentanyl to the United States, where overdose deaths from synthetic opioids exceeded 71,000 last year,
to the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.

More:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/fentanyl-stuffed-tamales-mexico-us-border/

[unweird]

1. Noooooooooooo! Not the Tamales!!