DEA Makes Largest Meth Bust in U.S. History

The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration seized the largest cache of methamphetamine in history earlier this month.  The Mercury News reports that the drug, along with large quantities of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine were found in two stash houses  rural Riverside County, CA. and at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry a few miles south of downtown San Diego.  The drugs confiscated from the two locations are estimated to have a combined wholesale value of $25 million, with enough meth to dose every inhabitant in the United States.

The drugs seized at the border were in a tractor-trailer supposedly hauling medical supplies.  DEA officials told reporters that “Nearly all of the meth distributed within the United States is produced in huge quantities in industrial labs in Mexico.”  Agents noted that the massive quantities of drugs clearly indicates the involvement of a major drug cartel.

Last year, the Los Angeles Times reported on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to pull national guard troops off the state’s southern border after calling the President’s border security emergency “a manufactured crisis..”