More than two pounds of fentanyl was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents after it washed up on the shores of Daytona Beach, Florida, authorities said Thursday.
An unsuspecting beachgoer discovered the drugs and called police, Andrew Scharnweber of CBP's Miami division said in a statement on Wednesday.
A photo accompanying the post showed a huge chunk of the dangerous white powder wrapped in plastic.
“WARNING — Do not disturb or handle any suspicious packages along shorelines. Contact local authorities immediately,” Scharnweber wrote.
Other details about the fentanyl's origins were not immediately released.
The discovery came just weeks after in Florida. Huge amount Breitbart News reported that a multi-county drug bust seized fentanyl that could have claimed the lives of as many as three million people.
The fentanyl was found in a variety of forms, including “bricks” similar to those found on the beach, and thousands of compressed tablets stamped to resemble prescription opioids such as oxycodone.
Dangerous synthetic opioids have been a major factor in the “more than doubling” of overdose deaths among children aged 12 to 17 since the pandemic began, a recent report found. The Washington Post analysis According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Fatal overdose is On top of that 112,000 According to NPR, 2023 is expected to see a record number of deaths across all age groups for the first time in US history.
Recent Report The report by the House of Representatives Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) states: The New York Times Bestselling author Peter Schweitzer's latest book Blood Money China subsidizes the production and export of the chemicals used to make fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.
“Specifically, there is a Chinese gang called UBG that is widely believed to have founded the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico and made them the fentanyl kingpins,” Schweitzer told Fox News. March.
“The leader of the gang is a man named Chang Anlo, commonly known as the White Wolf. White Wolf's business is [a] “He was one of Hunter's partners who sent the Biden family a $5 million interest-free, forgivable loan,” the investigative journalist said. “And it was specifically designated for the family, not just Hunter. So does Joe Biden want to discuss these difficult issues? Does he want to hold China accountable? Absolutely not. I'm convinced it's because of these financial entanglements.”
