Sniffer dog makes giant fentanyl bust with 'enough to kill 2.7m people'
dailystar.co.ukborder patrol dog has found enough fentanyl to kill 2.7million people during a routine search at a checkpoint in Arizona.The bust came after the drug-sniffing pooch uncovered three packages of fentanyl weighing 12 pounds, with the weighty collection seized from the I-19 checkpoint, US Border Patrol officials have said.John R Modlin, the Chief Patrol Agent of the US Border Patrol's Tuscon Sector, said in a tweet: "Just 2 milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal!"The fatally small dose means that the amount uncovered by the sniffer dog would have been enough to kill more than the total number of residents living in Arizona's Pima County.As of 2019, Pima County currently lists over a million people in its population.
Nogales Station agents seized the drugs, which were in the possession of a Mexican citizen now facing criminal charges, Border Patrol officials have said.The Drug Enforcement Administration of Phoenix was also on hand to respond to the scene.Agents from the Nogales Station were based an hour away from the south of Tuscon, but the discovery of three packages of fentanyl is the latest in a series of drug interceptions in the area.A week before this bust, a K9 sniffed out another 85 pounds of fentanyl at the same checkpoint, with the drugs oddly wrapped and hidden in a vehicle, Modlin tweeted.The Nogales checkpoint has seen a great number of drug seizures so far this year, with one smuggler caught within the first few days of April carrying 65 pounds of meth, 47 pounds of cocaine and 80 grams of fentanyl.
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