Border Patrol Confiscates Nearly $1 Million In Drugs Near Salton Sea
LAPPL News Watch
October 7, 2020
U.S. Border Patrol agents confiscated more than $800,000 worth of drugs from a checkpoint near the Salton Sea in the last two weeks, the agency announced.
The El Centro Sector of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said multiple drug busts at the Highway 86 checkpoint between Salton City and Westmoreland found methamphetamine, heroine, cocaine and fentanyl.
Three incidents were logged over the weekend, according to
a release from Border Patrol. In one, agents said a 21-year-old man was
found with roughly $88,000 worth of cocaine and fentanyl. Two other
seizures involved a 35-year-old man found with roughly $58,000 worth of
heroin and a 53-year-old man found with nearly $360,000 worth of cocaine
and methamphetamine, the agency said.
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