EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A man and a woman are facing federal drug charges after being arrested in a hotel room in El Paso allegedly trying to flush fentanyl pills down the toilet.
FBI special agents arrested Christina Alvarez and Frankie Santos while serving a search warrant at a hotel on Gateway Boulevard East, according to a criminal complaint filed Jan. 23 in U.S. District Court in El Paso.
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The agents knocked on the door but nobody answered. They went in, anyway, and allegedly found Santos standing in front of the toilet attempting to dump an undetermined amount of fentanyl pills.
Agents also located Alvarez in the hotel room, along with more than 5 ounces of fentanyl pills and methamphetamine, a loaded Smith & Wesson 9mm semi-automatic gun and a Keltec P32 .32-caliber pistol, according to the complaint…