Yuma Border Patrol seizes 192 pounds of fentanyl
The bust happened this week at the I-8 highway checkpoint in Yuma
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Yuma Sector Border Patrol said a K-9 alerted to a vehicle carrying 192 pounds of fentanyl at the I-8 highway checkpoint in Yuma this week.
Yuma Border Patrol confirms the bust happened Tuesday, May 30, at the I-8 highway checkpoint in Foothills.
This single bust is more fentanyl than was seized in the sector for all of fiscal year 2022.
Border patrol says it has a street value of over $2 million
The DEA says taking just two milligrams of the drug can be deadly.
"It's one of the largest, if not the largest [fentanyl bust] we've had here in Yuma," Border Patrol Agent Fidel Cabrera said.
