Arizona News – On Wednesday, March 27, 2024, AZDPS troopers seized approximately 28.85 pounds of fentanyl pills, 165 pounds of methamphetamine, two pounds of heroin, over one pound of cocaine, five firearms, four vehicles, and over $20,000 in three different incidents in less than six hours in the Phoenix metro area. Six individuals were arrested in these incidents and are facing both state and federal charges.
Yesterday’s seizures demonstrate the AZDPS’ continued commitment to disrupt the flow of illicit substances into the State of Arizona and our nation. Over the past six months – between September 1, 2023, and March 22, 2024 – the AZDPS Criminal Investigations and Highway Patrol divisions have seized more than 1,576 pounds of fentanyl combined across the state. This equates to over 7,000,000 pills.
Many of these seizures were significant in terms of weight – 32 seizures were over 10 pounds– which reflects large-scale, organized drug trafficking activity. In some cases, the drugs were bound for major cities across the country, including Chicago and Albuquerque.
The largest seizure occurred following a commercial vehicle stop in Eloy in January of 2024, resulting in the discovery of 208 pounds of fentanyl valued at over $1 million.
AZDPS would like to thank our partners at the federal, state, and local levels who provided vital assistance in many of these investigations.
Please talk to your loved ones about the dangers associated with taking unknown pills. Lab testing by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) shows roughly 7 out of every 10 fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills contain a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl. Additionally, some of the pills seized in these incidents tested positive for xylazine, a powerful sedative that places users at even higher risk of suffering a fatal drug poisoning.
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Great bust! Taking out some of the supply for M’erica’s demand for them! Can’t fix the smuggling problem until you fix the user problem and NO WALL is going to fix either! Good policing can despite being hit or miss and extremely expensive to do routinely.
Why do so so many M’erican’s have such bad addictions to hard drugs and hard alcohol that make the Cartels and Oligarchs Multi Trillionaires worldwide? Must ponder and ask oneself.
The problem goes back as far as Opium Dens and “Medicinal Cocaine” between 1850’s-1920’s.
Then we had WWI, WWII and GI morphine addiction, followed by the War in Vietnam where GI’s were frequently exposed to and addicted to GI morphine and Vietnamese heroin they along with their Mob connections in and out of the military trafficked it heavily back to the states and sold it with purpose to minority communities in the cities as part of a CIA/Mob joint venture.
Next we had the start of the cocaine generation of primarily white wealthy white collar punks and their families who became the primary targets of the next
Epidemic the Crank/Crack/Meth epidemic which then flowed into the opioid epidemic which has since become fentanyl, morphine, heroin, crack, cocaine, prescription opioid, anything goes epidemic affecting primarily M’erica’s ute (My Cousin Vinny ref) unemployed, un housed, veterans, disabled, and people of all backgrounds, races, color, creed, sexual orientation, religion etc.
How does the so called alleged self proclaimed Greates Nation on Earth arrive at this point?
Again, as someone who actively fought in the war on drugs while in the military and afterward as a Federal Officer can tell you it has Zilch to do with either of our borders and everything to do with good ol’ M’erican over consumption.
Heck most M’erican drug users can and do make or grow just about anything they use right here in the good ol M’erica!
So building the Bigliest most Beautiful Fall Down in the Wind (on the Mexican side no less) Wall. You can even add all the NOTsee cool stuff like minefields, moats with gators, robotic machine guns and lasers the Orange Moron has you believing will fix this problem of ours and it may slow some drug flow down temporarily but it will never stop the demand nor availability!
Woman accused of trying to smuggle drugs inside hamburger across border https://www.azfamily.com/2024/04/02/woman-accused-trying-smuggle-drugs-inside-hamburger-across-border/