{"id":132229,"date":"2022-07-13T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/mexico-announce-historic-seizure-of-fentanyl-valued-at-230-million\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T18:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T18:50:24","slug":"mexico-announce-historic-seizure-of-fentanyl-valued-at-230-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/mexico-announce-historic-seizure-of-fentanyl-valued-at-230-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Announce \u2018Historic\u2019 Seizure Of Fentanyl Valued at $230 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s army and National Guard <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gob.mx\/sedena\/prensa\/ejercito-mexicano-y-guardia-nacional-realizan-en-sinaloa-aseguramiento-historico-de-fentanilo\" rel=\"noopener\">announced <\/a>on Thursday that they had conducted a \u201chistoric\u201d\u00a0drug raid on a warehouse in Culiacan, seizing a half-ton of fentanyl valued at around $230 million,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mexico-fentanyl-seizure-half-ton-warehouse\/\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the largest seizure in history of this lethal drug,\u201d Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia said.<\/p>\n<p>Upwards of 1,200 pounds of the lethal synthetic drug were discovered in the warehouse, which authorities estimated could have produced millions\u00a0of counterfeit Xanax, Adderall or Oxycodone pills. The purity of the Fentanyl was unclear, since it\u2019s often cut with other drugs, and Mexico\u2019s Defense Department said 10 men were arrested during the raid.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also conducted another raid that same day,\u00a0where they found a half-ton of meth, cocaine, opium and 70 tons of other mixing chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>Fentanyl is responsible for\u00a0a majority of the overdose deaths in the United States, as it\u2019s 100 times more potent than morphine and can be lethal at just two milligrams. Police recently said seizures of Fentanyl-laced pills increased 50-fold between 2018 and 2021, in part thanks to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/border-patrol-tests-new-tech-to-stop-fentanyl\/\" rel=\"noopener\">new technology <\/a>that allows trucks crossing the border to be scanned for the opiate.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0raid also comes less than a month after Colorado State Patrol officers discovered 114 pounds of fentanyl in a vehicle driving to Denver on Interstate 70. Colorado authorities deemed it the largest seizure of the drug ever made on a highway.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\" \/>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a continued cat and mouse game between law enforcement and cartels,\u201d\u00a0Colorado State Patrol Smuggling, Trafficking and Interdiction Unit Captain Bill Barkley told the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/premium\/biggest-seizure-of-pure-fentanyl-powder-on-a-u-s-highway-made-in-colorado\/article_13e038e3-42f6-5c3d-8976-d5c11ff4b27d.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Colorado Gazette<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cWhether or not it\u2019s on I-70 or on I-25, or it\u2019s on secondary highways coming into our state, I would bet every hour of every day there is something.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/mexican-authorities-announce-230-million-fentanyl-seizure\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s army and National Guard announced on Thursday that they had conducted a \u201chistoric\u201d\u00a0drug raid on a warehouse in Culiacan, seizing a half-ton of fentanyl valued at around $230 million,\u00a0CBS News\u00a0reports. \u201cThis is the largest seizure in history of this lethal drug,\u201d Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia said. Upwards of 1,200 pounds of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448,449,126,5,5837,1375,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dfp-notadsafe","category-dfp-notadsafe-noads","category-drugs","category-featured","category-fentanyl","category-mexico","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132231,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132229\/revisions\/132231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}