A lethal dose of fentanyl

1-8-20

A lethal dose of fentanyl  https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/nano-killer/Content?oid=14670643
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5-30-19  Express shipments have increased by nearly 50%, and international mail shipments have gone up more than 200% over the past five years.  Yet at the FedEx hub in Memphis, which processed 86 million shipments last year, there are only 15 CBP officers working in the main overnight “sort” shift …

  Unlike packages sent via private shippers, searching anything sent through the US mail requires a warrant.  The Postal Service, which processes 14 million parcels each day, is also obligated by law to deliver all international parcels.  Private companies, meanwhile, are allowed to turn suspicious shipments away.

  1 overseas seller assures prospective customers: “We provide special undetectable anti X-Ray wrapping.”

 https://qz.com/1627572/drug-traffickers-favorite-way-to-move-fentanyl-is-fedex-and-usps/

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12-19-19  The BC RCMP says it netted 13.7 kilograms of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues (enough to kill millions) when it searched a home belonging to Jaroslaw Orzel in Richmond, B.C. in 2017.  The intelligence unit was able to identify Orzel and the method he was using to ship drugs into Canada, she said.  The drugs had originated in China and were being received in post office boxes in Richmond, according to officials.  “In total the CBSA was able to link this importer to seven previous seizures of fentanyl that were made in the international mail and courier streams,” she said. .  Officers also found a Glock-17 hand gun and a semi automatic rifle, $195,000 in cash  https://globalnews.ca/news/6317820/bc-drug-smuggler-prison-fentanyl-import-scheme/

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9-1-19    The cook, who spoke on the condition on anonymity, was a cattle rancher before he learned how to make fentanyl on the Internet.  “You earn more,” he said.  “It is less work and less investment and more profit.”

He and his business partners, two other cooks in their 20s, work outside the city of Culiacan with the permission of the Sinaloa drug cartel.

In two years in the business, he said, he has acquired six vehicles.  He recently opened a car wash as a means to launder money.

-Some of the 1.1 million fentanyl pills that have been seized in Arizona this fiscal year.  The pills known as “Mexican oxy” are largely manufactured south of the border and smuggled into the United States by drug cartels.(Drug Enforcement Administration, Arizona office)

…They used to ask for shipments that were 90% heroin and 10% fentanyl. Now it’s the other way around.  “It’s not that the customers are asking for it,” he said of fentanyl. “The dealers are.  It’s more productive for them. They can make more money. The truth is, I’m the least proud of sending that drug,” he said of fentanyl. “But if I don’t send it, I’ll be out of business.”

At least with marijuana, he said, “I knew it wasn’t going to kill anybody.”   https://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-drugs-20190706-story.html

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