{"id":104230,"date":"2025-12-21T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104230\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:38:09","slug":"agents-discover-fentanyl-stash-in-i-5-search-latest-in-serious-of-local-seizures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104230\/","title":{"rendered":"Agents discover fentanyl stash in I-5 search, latest in serious of local seizures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Border-Patrol-SUV.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Border-Patrol-SUV.jpg\" alt=\"Border Patrol SUV\" class=\"wp-image-187701\"  \/><\/a>A Border Patrol SUV. (File photo courtesy of OnScene.TV<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol agents stopped a vehicle this week that contained nearly 17 pounds of fentanyl, authorities said, and took the driver into custody. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest drug seizure in the agency\u2019s San Diego Sector, where agents have confiscated 184 pounds of narcotics since Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Agents from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/border-security\/along-us-borders\/border-patrol-sectors\/san-diego-sector-california\/san-clemente-station\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Clemente Station<\/a> on Tuesday conducted a vehicle stop on northbound Interstate 5, the Border Patrol said in a news release. A search under the front seats uncovered seven packages of fentanyl weighing 16.75 pounds, which had an estimated street value of $64,600. <\/p>\n<p>In three other cases this month out of the San Clemente Station, agents made I-5 stops and seized more fentanyl \u201312.24 pounds, with an estimated street value of $47,175; 25.79 pounds, valued at $99,450 and 23.48 pounds, valued at $90,525.<\/p>\n<p>In the second incident, they also found 31 pounds of heroin. <\/p>\n<p>In an additional stop, in Murrieta, agents searched a vehicle on Interstate 15 and discovered 75 pounds of drugs, including methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>In each case, authorities took the driver into custody. Three are U.S. citizens, one is a permanent legal resident and another, a Mexican citizen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe significant quantity of fentanyl and other dangerous narcotics that our agents have seized in the past two weeks represents millions of lethal doses,\u201d said San Diego Sector Chief Patrol Agent Justin De La Torre. \u201cWhether it is shutting down human traffickers or preventing deadly drugs from entering our country, border security saves lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Border Patrol SUV. (File photo courtesy of OnScene.TV Border Patrol agents stopped a vehicle this week that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[56582,13260,33100,5151,17370,56583,74,76,75,15240],"class_list":["post-104230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-drug-seizures","tag-fentanyl","tag-heroin","tag-interstate-5","tag-methamphetamine","tag-murrieta","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-u-s-border-patrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}