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In March 2021, various news websites reported that U.S. Border Patrol agents had made the remarkable discovery of $60,000 worth of fentanyl, the prescription painkiller that has played a prominent role in the ongoing U.S. opioid crisis. On March 30, KIRO-7 published an article with the headline, Border Patrol canine sniffs out $60K worth of fentanyl hidden in breakfast burritos, and on March 31, Unilad.co.uk posted a similar piece with the headline, Border Patrol Seize $60,000 Worth Of Fentanyl Hidden Inside Burritos. Those reports were accurate. On March 30, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published details of the discovery in a news release, specifying that the vehicle in question was searched the previous day at an immigration checkpoint along California's Highway 78: On Twitter, CBP posted two photographs of the breakfast burritos with fentanyl hidden inside them:
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