Beautiful night to look to the heavens.
As illegal immigrants pour over the border, their companion crimes flourish also:
Two arrested in 50,000 fentanyl-laced pill drug deal in El Paso restaurant parking lot
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El Paso County sheriff’s investigators arrested a man and a woman accused of selling 50,000 fentanyl-laced pills in a drug bust in a restaurant parking lot last week.
Deputies seized more than 20 pounds of pills, including hundreds of thousands of pills in other packages found inside the Arizona pair’s car, according to court documents.
Kevin Peña, 20, and Andromeda Sanchez, 22, who are from the Tucson area, were arrested on two counts each of manufacture/delivery of controlled substance, according to El Paso County Jail records and court documents.
The bust took place on the afternoon of Oct. 6 in the parking lot of the Taco Cabana at 1880 Joe Battle Blvd. near Montwood Drive in far East El Paso, criminal complaint affidavits filed by a sheriff’s detective stated.
The Arizona pair showed up for an alleged deal to sell 50,000 counterfeit fentanyl-laced M30 pills for $100,000 to a buyer who was actually an undercover federal agent with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, according to the affidavits and a prosecutor at a bond hearing for Peña.
A deal was made and when the “bundle” of pills was handed to the undercover agent, a signal was given and teams moved in to arrest the pair, the affidavits stated.
The bundle contained more than 3 pounds of blue M30 pills that tested positive for fentanyl, documents stated.
Six more packages of pills, weighing a total of 17 pounds, were then found on the back seat of the pair’s Nissan Sentra, affidavits stated. The pills tested positive for fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid.
…’Mexican oxy’ dangers
Counterfeit pills made to look like oxycodone M30 pills, are also known as “Mexican oxy,” Mexican blues and blues because of the pills’ color, though counterfeits, may come in a variety of colors.
The fentanyl-laced pills are manufactured in Mexican cartel labs and smuggled over the border for sale to drug users across the United States.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has issued warnings in El Paso and nationwide regarding counterfeit pills sold on the streets containing potentially lethal amounts of fentanyl.
The DEA cautioned that two out of every five counterfeit pills with fentanyl it has seized contain a potentially lethal dose.
Counterfeit pills are especially dangerous because buyers may think they are purchasing real prescription medication, the DEA cautioned. The fake pills are made to look identical to opioid medications like Oxycontin, Xanax, Vicodin and Percocet.
The DEA warnings do not apply to legitimate prescription medication authorized by a doctor and sold in pharmacies.
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Another never ending “war” that gives authority unconstitutional powers, like civil asset forfeiture laws, without much progress stopping the proliferation of drugs. Without cooperation by other countries, which are almost all third world hell holes on the take from drug cartels, success in this battle is improbable at the moment.
Beautiful night to look to the heavens.
Personally I’ve always thought the War On Drugs was misnamed.
It should have been called the war on the Derps Competition.
disturbing, to say the least.