San Diego, California – San Diego’s highways turned into crime-fighting battlegrounds this month as Border Patrol agents snared a staggering 184 pounds of narcotics in just fourteen days. The haul? Enough deadly fentanyl to put millions at risk—plus loads of cocaine, meth, and heroin—with authorities declaring it a crushing blow to smugglers.
The drama began on December 4. At the San Clemente checkpoint on Interstate 5, agents flagged down a vehicle headed north and uncovered five hefty bundles of fentanyl, tipping the scales at 12.24 pounds and valued at $47,175 on the street. But the action didn’t stop there! Later that day, Murrieta agents halted another suspect on northbound I-15, seizing 4.74 pounds of fentanyl (worth $18,275), along with 19.18 pounds of cocaine and a whopping 51.27 pounds of methamphetamine.
Not even a week later, on December 10, Border Patrol officers conducting a stop on I-5 discovered 43 suspicious packages. Nearly half—19—contained fentanyl weighing 25.79 pounds and worth approximately $99,450. The remaining 24 bundles weren’t any less dangerous, loaded with 31.19 pounds of heroin…