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San Luis CBP Officers Seize Suspected Fentanyl Pills

Release Date
Thu, 09/20/2018

TUCSON, Ariz. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a local teen in a failed attempt to smuggle quarter pound of suspected fentanyl pills into the U.S. through Arizona’s Port of San Luis Tuesday.

A San Luis, Arizona teen was caught with a quarter-pound of suspected fentanyl pills
A San Luis, Arizona teen was caught
with a quarter-pound of suspected
fentanyl pills

Officers referred a 16-year-old San Luis, Arizona male for additional questioning as he attempted to enter the U.S. from Mexico Tuesday afternoon. A CBP canine alerted to an odor it is trained to detect, leading officers to a pair of duct taped packages strapped around the teen’s thighs. The fentanyl has a street value of nearly $10,500.

CBP officers seized the drugs, while the subject was arrested and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.

Last Modified: Oct 27, 2023