Authorities in Mexico encountered a new tactic where cartel smugglers disguise shipments of fentanyl as protein powder in shipments bound for the California border.
Information from Mexico’s National Guard revealed that, on Wednesday, authorities in Culiacan, Sinaloa, seized 200,000 pills of fentanyl that were disguised as bottles of protein powder. In less than a week, authorities found close to a million fentanyl pills being shipped in similar protein powder packages. The shipments were about to be trafficked to the United States.
The seizure comes just days after authorities made a similar seizure on July 8. In this incident, authorities in Culiacan seized another 600,000 fentanyl pills disguised as protein powder at a different shipping company. In that case, a police dog pointed to six boxes containing protein powder bottles. The boxes were filled with blue fentanyl pills.
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