Woman fell for sale of fentanyl in Tijuana;she had 60 thousand pills-Infobae

2022-06-16 01:00:35 By : Ms. Cindy Wong

A woman was arrested in Tijuana, Baja California, with 60,000 fentanyl pills, which she allegedly sold on the streets of the border city, an entity in which drug laboratories and storage points containing significant amounts of the opioid have been secured in recent weeks. .María "J" was arrested last May, and later linked to the process this Wednesday, June 15, for her alleged responsibility in crimes against health in the form of possession of her for commercial purposes.According to what was reported by the Attorney General's Office (FGR), María "J" was captured by police officers from the State Citizen Security Force (FESC), who were notified by a citizen of the presence of people with a suspicious attitude in a parking lot.When they went to the scene, the security elements noticed a person who was uploading various packages to a vehicle, for which they carried out a preventive inspection, which led to the seizure of bags with 60,000 fentanyl pills, as well as five kilos 144 grams of the powdered opioid.María "J" was arrested for the events, who was transferred to the vicinity of the Public Ministry of the Attorney General's Office (FGR), where the investigation folder was integrated into the events, to later lead to the first hearing before the accused.The MP of the Specialized Unit for the Investigation of Crimes Against Health (UEIDS) presented arguments and sufficient evidence before a trial judge for her to be linked to a proceeding for a crime against health in the form of possession for commercial purposes.The defendant is under informal preventive detention at the Center for Social Rehabilitation (Cereso) in Tijuana, Baja California;In addition, the authorities set a period of one month to carry out the complementary investigations for the case.On June 12, federal authorities seized a shipment of fentanyl hidden in a large mechanical part, which was transported inside a parcel truck that circulated through the streets of San Quintín, Baja California.The Attorney General's Office announced that agency agents located the shipment when it was circulating inside the vehicle on the San Quintín-Ensenada highway.A canine binomial was mobilized to the scene, which warned of the presence of suspicious merchandise in a "bulky metal object that, upon inspection, found substance inside."Weeks before the seizure, the same FGR dismantled a fentanyl narco-laboratory inside a house in the border city of Tijuana, where federal agents seized doses of the narcotic and equipment for its synthesis.The building with the clandestine facilities was located in the Valle Verde neighborhood, four kilometers from the border with the United States, where elements of the Federal Ministerial Police and the Criminal Investigation Agency traveled.Inside the home, 36 kilograms of fentanyl were seized, as well as two tableting machines, a tablet press, two hydraulic presses with three metal molds and diverse documentation.In the same way, four cardboard containers were confiscated, which contained white powder and were labeled under the legend "metamizoles sodium", whose weight was calculated at 93 kilograms.Tijuana is one of the main points of drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, so different criminal gangs use various methods to carry out their criminal operations without being discovered, including the hundreds of drug tunnels discovered by Mexican authorities.