Overview
- CBP officers at San Ysidro, which recorded a large bust on April 19, seized about 35 pounds of fentanyl powder and more than 80 pounds of meth after a canine alert to packages hidden in a Honda Pilot’s roof.
- Days earlier on April 13, officers at the same crossing found roughly 14 pounds of fentanyl powder in a Toyota Corolla’s rear quarter panels after flagging a driver enrolled in a trusted traveler program for low‑risk commuters.
- Across Texas cargo bridges, CBP reported multiple interdictions including the Pharr International Bridge case, where officers found more than 908 pounds of meth concealed in pallets declared as tile with an estimated value of $8.1 million.
- CBP says officers used dogs and imaging tools to spot drugs concealed in vehicle roofs, body panels, trailer walls and floors during separate inspections at ports in California and Texas.
- In each case, agents seized the narcotics and vehicles and arrested the drivers on federal importation charges, while one outlet’s calculation using third‑party lethal‑dose estimates framed the month’s totals as enough to kill about 32.7 million people.