A man and woman from Texas were arrested after authorities received a tip that they were transporting 30,000 fentanyl pills to Miami, officials said.
Jose Luis Martinez, 27, and Valeria Nohemi Villicana, 26, are facing charges of fentanyl trafficking and possession of a controlled substance, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office officials said Tuesday.
The sheriff’s office and the FBI began an investigation after they received a tip from a confidential informant last April that a man and woman were transporting 30,000 fentanyl pills from Texas to Miami.
Investigators were able to identify the suspects as Martinez and Villicana, who are from Houston, and learned they’d arrived in Fort Lauderdale and were staying at a hotel near the airport, an arrest report said…