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2023-02-23 -Lurid Crime Tales-

CBP Seizes 6 Tons of Fentanyl in 2023, Nearly Matches 2022 Total

[Breitbart] U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 12,000 pounds of fentanyl during the first four months of Fiscal Year 23. This nearly equals the nearly 12,500 pounds seized during the entire previous fiscal year.

Between October 1, 2022, and January 31, 2023, CBP officers assigned to ports of entry across the United States seized 12,017 pounds of fentanyl, according to the CBP Drug Seizures Report for January. This compares to 12,493 pounds of fentanyl seized during the entire Fiscal Year 22.

During the month of December 2012, CBP officers seized 6,200 pounds of the deadly drug. One year earlier, officers seized only 523 pounds.

The agency is on pace to shatter last year’s record for fentanyl seizures. The trend does not appear to be letting up. In February, CBP officers assigned to the Port of Nogales seized another 195,000 fentanyl pills and 2.03 pounds of fentanyl powder hidden in a vehicle crossing the border from Mexico.

A few days earlier, officers assigned to the Douglas Port of Entry found another smuggler attempting to enter the United States with 185 packages of blue pills that tested positive for fentanyl. Officials say this equates to approximately 180,000 pills.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [25 views ] Top
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#1 The government has been making busts like this for decades and always making a big deal about it for the media. The numbers are always so huge you just can't imagine how the cartels can keep making money. And yet there is no shortage of fentanyl on the streets and the cartels continue rake in billions. How can this be? Could it be that these huge busts are merely a tax on the cartels, mere drops in the river of drugs flowing into this country? Could it be these busts are nothing but a show the government puts on for the rubes?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-23 12:16|| 2023-02-23 12:16|| Front Page Top

#2 ...embrace the power of 'and'

Think of the pols who play the 'soak the rich', take in their donations, and then write loopholes that allow them to stay rich while denouncing them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-23 16:35|| 2023-02-23 16:35|| Front Page Top

#3 The least costly way to destroy a country is from the inside. It's a long practiced Chinese method. Bribe the leaders to work for you or look the other way. Some smart Chinese guy wrote a book about this a long time ago.

Fentanyl is taking American lives at the same rate as World War 2. Where is the mobilization, the counter attack, the destruction of those that attack us?

Posted by Ebbains Threrenter5475 2023-02-23 16:52|| 2023-02-23 16:52|| Front Page Top

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