“This was not just a drug bust – it was a dirty bomb coming across our southern border.”

Patrick Goodenough reports at cnsnews,

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers searching a cucumber-laden tractor trailer at the Nogales crossing on the U.S.-Mexico border at the weekend found and seized the largest shipment of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl in CBP history.

In a hidden compartment of the trailer driven by a 26-year-old Mexican, the officers found nearly 254 pounds of fentanyl, in powder and pill form, valued at approximately $3.5 million, Nogales area port director Michael Humphries told reporters at the port of entry on Thursday.

They also found in the same space more than 300 packages, weighing almost 395 pounds of methamphetamine, valued at $1.1 million – the third-largest seizure ever of methamphetamine at an Arizona port of entry.

Reacting to the news, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said the seized fentanyl would have been enough “to kill millions of Americans.”

“This was not just a drug bust – it was a dirty bomb coming across our southern border.”

...After anomalies were observed in the floor of the trailer, CBP sniffer dogs were deployed, and detected a suspect odor. A physical search revealed the hidden compartment and its contents.

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Big drug bust in Pueblo

PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) - Possibly the biggest drug bust in state history -- and it happened right here in southern Colorado.

Pueblo police announced Thursday the seizure of $8 million in heroin, 50 grams of cocaine, 2.5 pounds of meth, 35 firearms and $540,000 in cash.

"The one thing we don't tolerate in communities like this is the poison of heroin and the violence of illegal gun use and possession," said Acting United States Attorney for the District of Colorado Robert Troyer.

The police department called the heroin seizure "historic," and with good reason -- it could be the largest bust in Colorado history.

Police, flanked by the Colorado U.S. Attorney General's Office and the FBI Denver Division, announced the massive drug recovery and the five arrests that came along with it in a news conference late Thursday morning.

According to police, the heroin alone could be cut for 40,000 users, and the intent wasn't to sell to other cities but instead plague the streets of Pueblo with the drug.

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Flying high

No that's not the kind of snow at Dallas Fort Worth Airport being written about by Robert Wilonsky in the Dallas Morning News this morning.

Forty-six people, most from Dallas and Fort Worth, were arrested this morning in connection with a drug-distribution and money-laundering ring involving deliveries made by at least one person who works at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

...According to the feds, most of those named in the document are charged with at least one count of conspiring to distribute meth, heroin or cocaine. And: “Eight defendants are charged with at least one count of money laundering or conspiracy to commit money laundering.”

The indictment alleges that four of the 46 — 33-year-old Funaki “Noc” Falahola, 51-year-old Moniteveti “Vince” Katoa, 33-year-old Molitoni “Tony” Katoa and 40-year-old Janelle Isaacs — worked at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport or knew someone at the airport who could “bypass security” to make cocaine deliveries from here to “throughout the United States.” The indictment also accuses them of acting as “look outs … to bypass security measures” at the airport.

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Suspended with pay

This photo shows Lori Riley Whitley, 38, and her husband, Gary Nelson Whitley Jr., 41 of Zebulon, N.C. (Johnston's County Sheriff's Office)
From Fox News:

A North Carolina third-grade teacher was accused Friday of cooking up meth with her husband in a home they shared with their 8-year-old son.

Lori Riley Whitely, 38, was charged with operating a meth lab and endangering a child after police raided her Johnston County home, authorities said. Her 41-year-old husband, Gary Whitley, was also busted.

Wake County school officials suspended Whitley from her job teaching third-graders at Wendell Elementary School after her arrest. The school district said she has been a teacher at Wendaell since 2002. She was suspended with pay, officials said.

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Thanks to Thomas Lipson

He just couldn't wait to toke up

Australian bus driver crashes into a home, after ingesting synthetic marijuana, morphine, and methamphetamines.

Watch the video here.