Sheriff’s deputies arrested a person Friday on suspicion of transporting medicine after discovering 240,000 oxycodone tablets in his automobile, officers stated.
At 7:30 a.m. a detective from the sheriff’s Border Crime Suppression Workforce noticed a 2012 Chrysler 300 rushing on Interstate 5 close to Camp Pendleton, sheriff’s Sgt. William Kerr stated in a press release.
The detective pulled the automobile over, and Kerr stated the driving force appeared nervous and offered misleading solutions.
A sheriff’s canine signaled that medicine is likely to be within the automobile, and deputies who searched the automobile discovered 32 packages of counterfeit oxycodone tablets within the gas tank.
Kerr stated the tablets are generally often known as “M30’s” or “Blues” and are sometimes smuggled into america from Mexico. They’re recognized to comprise deadly doses of fentanyl.
“This seizure and others prefer it proceed to save lots of particular person households from the lack of family members to unintentional overdoses,” Kerr stated within the assertion.
The person, a resident of Tijuana, Mexico, additionally faces an enhancement for possessing greater than 24 kilograms of the drug.
