Sept. 22 (UPI) — U.S. Border Patrol agents seized 105 pounds of smuggled fentanyl pills, less than two weeks after illicit drugs were also recovered in Southern California.
At approximately 4 a.m. Friday, agents assigned to the San Clemente Border Patrol Station stopped a suspicious silver sedan near Avenida Vista Hermosa on Interstate 5, the agency said in a news release . San Clemente is 53 miles north of San Diego.
A Border Patrol K9 team conducted a non-intrusive search of the vehicle and alerted agents to search further.
Agents discovered a large amount of plastic-wrapped packages placed inside trash bags in the car’s truck…