[SIZE=6]$1.4 million worth of painkillers found hidden in car at US-Mexico border[/SIZE]
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U.S. Border Patrol agents are used to finding drugs stuffed into tight spaces inside vehicles, but a bust on Wednesday was far beyond the normal.
Federal prosecutors in San Diego say agents found 47,340 40 mg tablets of what appears to have been the painkiller oxycodone inside a hidden compartment of a 1999 Honda Accord after it passed through the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. At a street value of about $30 to $40 per tablet, the haul was worth around $1.42 million.
“This is one of the biggest seizures of oxycodone at a San Diego port of entry,” Acting US Attorney Alana Robinson said in a statement.
In fact, officials say they believe it is the largest seizure of oxycodone tablets in at least the past five years along the Southwest border.
In a criminal complaint obtained by ABC News, prosecutors say the driver of that Honda, 22-year-old Adriana Morfin-Paniagua, told agents she had owned the vehicle for only a month and was on her way to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get it registered. Agents smelled silicone and began searching. They found a gap filled with silicone and packages inside the compartment.
Morfin-Paniagua was arrested. According to court documents, she is a U.S. citizen and had a valid U.S. passport card.
The complaint says she admitted to agents that she knowingly smuggled the drugs and knew about the hidden compartment. Morfin-Paniagua claimed she was going to be paid up to $1,500 by someone once she returned to Tijuana.
In a field test, the tablets showed a positive test for oxycodone. They are now being forensically tested at a DEA lab to confirm the initial findings. Federal prosecutors say that process should take about a week.
Morfin-Paniagua is charged with importation of a controlled substance. If she is found guilty she could get up to 20 years in federal prison.
and then this was in the comments…
KissMy Trump 19 hours ago
Is this story real? A trafficker whose middle name is “Morfin” (morphine) and her last name is what she’ll be eating in jail “Pan i agua” (Bread and Water), come on at least be more creative!
I don’t know what to believe anymore…
:p:D:eek::oops::rolleyes:o_O
the other day).