{"id":51543,"date":"2022-12-29T22:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T03:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/arizona-border-agents-seize-1-2-million-fentanyl-pills-51543"},"modified":"2022-12-29T22:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T03:07:04","slug":"arizona-border-agents-seize-1-2-million-fentanyl-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/arizona-border-agents-seize-1-2-million-fentanyl-pills-51543","title":{"rendered":"Arizona border agents seize 1.2 million fentanyl pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Port of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nogales, Arizona<\/a> border patrol agents stopped over 1.2 million fentanyl pills and four pounds of fentanyl powder from entering the United States on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Port Director Michael W. Humphries of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\/border-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a> gave a breakdown of the drug acquisition on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CBP officers stopped two loads on Wednesday,&#8221; Humphries said on Twitter. &#8220;First load contained approx. 541,000 fentanyl pills, 4 lbs fentanyl powder and 37.55 lbs of meth concealed in doors and rear panels of cars. Seven hours later, approx. 689,200 fentanyl pills were found hidden throughout a vehicle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/arizona-border-officers-find-more-than-fentanyl-pills-hidden-train-arriving-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ARIZONA BORDER OFFICERS FIND MORE THAN 700,000 FENTANYL PILLS HIDDEN IN TRAIN ARRIVING FROM MEXICO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just five days earlier, Humphries reported a seizure of 230,600 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/opioid-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fentanyl pills<\/a> in the spare tire of a wheel well of a car, and another 832,000 fentanyl pills in a different vehicle trying to enter the U.S. through the Port of Nogales.<\/p>\n<p>Fentanyl seizures at the U.S. border with Mexico have continued to surge this year.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman issued a press release in August, saying, &#8220;The amount of fentanyl we are seizing at the border is staggering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/border-patrol-union-president-agents-feel-completely-defeated-ahead-title-42-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BORDER PATROL UNION PRESIDENT SAYS AGENTS FEEL \u2018COMPLETELY DEFEATED\u2019 AHEAD OF TITLE 42&#8217;S END<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comments came as the Justice Department revealed that several ports in Southern California were at the center of a surge in fentanyl seizures at the border, where roughly 60% of seizures of the deadly drug took place in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>But that rise has been seen at ports all along the border, with law enforcement agencies on both sides of the southern border making record busts in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials have warned of a spike in deaths linked to the illicit drug \u2014 which is 100 times more potent than morphine and can be fatal in tiny amounts. The drug is created primarily in Mexico using precursors from China, and it is then transferred across the land border of the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/arizona-border-agents-seize-million-fentanyl-pills\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/arizona-border-agents-seize-million-fentanyl-pills <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port of Nogales, Arizona border patrol agents stopped over 1.2 million fentanyl pills and four pounds of fentanyl powder from entering the United States on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-51543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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