“This was not just a drug bust – it was a dirty bomb coming across our southern border.”

Patrick Goodenough reports at cnsnews,

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers searching a cucumber-laden tractor trailer at the Nogales crossing on the U.S.-Mexico border at the weekend found and seized the largest shipment of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl in CBP history.

In a hidden compartment of the trailer driven by a 26-year-old Mexican, the officers found nearly 254 pounds of fentanyl, in powder and pill form, valued at approximately $3.5 million, Nogales area port director Michael Humphries told reporters at the port of entry on Thursday.

They also found in the same space more than 300 packages, weighing almost 395 pounds of methamphetamine, valued at $1.1 million – the third-largest seizure ever of methamphetamine at an Arizona port of entry.

Reacting to the news, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said the seized fentanyl would have been enough “to kill millions of Americans.”

“This was not just a drug bust – it was a dirty bomb coming across our southern border.”

...After anomalies were observed in the floor of the trailer, CBP sniffer dogs were deployed, and detected a suspect odor. A physical search revealed the hidden compartment and its contents.

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