Trucker arrested in record-breaking drug seizure at border

AP via msn ^ | 22 November 2021 | uncredited AP

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A trucker from Mexico was arrested after trying to smuggle record-breaking amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl into the U.S., federal prosecutors said.

More than 17,500 pounds (7,930 kilograms) of meth and 389 pounds (176 kilograms) of fentanyl were discovered last Thursday hidden inside a tractor-trailer at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The seizures are the largest of either drug in the U.S. for both 2020 and 2021, the statement said.,,,

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according to InsightCrime.com "More than a ton of fentanyl was seized in the country last year - almost 500 percent more than in 2019. And drug trafficking groups are using “more sophisticated clandestine laboratories and processing methods” for production, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment"

[Equine1952]

What’s most depressing to me is the fact that there’s a market in the US that supports delivery of almost 18,000 lbs of this shitz.

[zeestephen]

Looks like the Democrats have suddenly decided they do not want to campaign as the "Party of 100,000 OD Deaths" in the 2022 midterm.

[Equine1952]

True. Sad to see.

[Does so]

“Yep...several busts in area have found pot laced with this poison...”

That’s no reason to deny this nation’s youth from Legalized Marijuana.

[ReformedBeckite]

All I can think of right now (in relation to this store) is the AMC mini TV series Breaking Bad.

[HighSierra5]

Pot is the gateway drug.

[Fresh Wind]

Pot is medicine. /s

[Clutch Martin]

This is a terrorist weapon. Close the borders!

[Hot Tabasco]

[Gay State Conservative]

Of course it is.You ask any heroin...fentanyl...meth addict their drug history and 99% will say “well,I started smoking pot when I was 14...”

[SheepWhisperer]

Breast milk is a gateway drug

[high info voter]

Animals doing this should be executed on the spot!!

[Uncle Miltie]

Bums.

[ridesthemiles]

IF you EVER want to see the ‘Supply Chain” problems solved-—Marijuana would not be in the picture.

ON any given day, 40% of CDL truckers cannot drive due to not being able to pass the random drug tests.

[Scrambler Bob]

Prosecute and sue the truck manufacturer.

[Vaduz]

17,500 pounds of meth hope our water supply systems are under heavy security that’s a bit much even for a dealer to sell.

[Does so]

“Breast milk is a gateway drug”.

Breast milk is tainted with any drugs the mother has taken; moreover, pregnancy with marijudana often leads to losing the unborn child...

The child shouldn’t be exposed until the brain is fully functioning—about age 26—and even that is dangerous...