Meat-filled Crockpot hiding 130,000 fentanyl pills found at Arizona border, feds say
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found thousands of fentanyl pills stashed inside a Crockpot filled with carne asada in Arizona, federal officials said.
One Crockpot hid 130,000 fentanyl pills, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Port Director Michael W. Humphries, tweeted on March 16.
Officer found the pills on March 15 at the Port of Nogales, a border crossing in Arizona and Mexico, according to the tweet and an email from Rob Daniels, a spokesperson for the CBP in Arizona.
Photos show the tablets in plastic bags inside the electric cooking pot. A second pot wrapped in plastic is also shown in the photos.
Officers found the drugs when they were conducting inspections involving officers and police dogs, Daniels said.
No one has been charged yet, he said.
The agency declined to explain how officers calculated there were 130,000 pills in the seizure, saying only they used “Current DEA guidelines.”
Other seizures
Someone tried to smuggle a shipment of cucumbers into Arizona from Mexico, which hid over 600 pounds of cocaine in February.
Customs and Border Protection officers discovered 1,336 pounds of meth in a shipment of onions at the California-Mexico border.
And an international package was intercepted in Tennessee with drugs. A cookbook was carved out to mask more than 5 ounces of cocaine.
This story was originally published March 21, 2022 at 2:20 PM with the headline "Meat-filled Crockpot hiding 130,000 fentanyl pills found at Arizona border, feds say."
