Flatbed trailer drug bust one of San Diego Sector’s largest fentanyl seizures

PINE VALLEY, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Over 120 pounds of fentanyl were seized last week at the Interstate 8 checkpoint in Pine Valley, becoming one of the Border Patrol’s largest fentanyl seizures in the San Diego area to date.

On the afternoon of Friday, June 27, U.S. Border Patrol agents from the San Diego Sector’s Campo Station searched a pickup truck hauling an empty flatbed trailer.

During secondary inspection, agents found a total of 42 packages of fentanyl hidden in the trailer’s frame…

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