Mexico’s Defense Ministry finds 1.8 million fentanyl pills in border town

Mexico’s Protection Ministry mentioned on Tuesday that troopers had discovered greater than 1.83 million fentanyl tablets in a hideout within the border metropolis of Tijuana.

The division mentioned in a press release that troopers staked out the house on Sunday after authorities obtained a tip that the location was getting used for drug trafficking.

After receiving a search warrant, troopers discovered the almost 2 million artificial opioid tablets and 880 kilos of meth within the house, the assertion mentioned. No arrests had been made.

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Fentanyl pills sit on a surface in Tijuana, Mexico on July 28, 2022.  Mexican police found 1.8 million fentanyl pills in a border town of Tijuana this week.

Fentanyl tablets sit on a floor in Tijuana, Mexico on July 28, 2022. Mexican police discovered 1.8 million fentanyl tablets in a border city of Tijuana this week. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Submit by way of Getty Photographs)

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Mexican cartels have used the border city to squeeze fentanyl into faux tablets. Then they smuggle these tablets into america.

The raid resulted in one of many largest seizures of fentanyl in Mexico in latest months, and got here only a day earlier than President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed that fentanyl just isn’t made in Mexico. He made this declare in feedback arguing that fentanyl was america’ drawback, not Mexico’s.