{"id":2241,"date":"2020-10-16T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2020-10-16T12:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:13:15","slug":"dea-makes-largest-meth-bust-in-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"DEA Makes Largest Meth Bust in U.S. History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration seized the largest cache of methamphetamine in history earlier this month.\u00a0 The Mercury News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/10\/15\/massive-methamphetamine-busts-one-largest-ever-by-dea-made-in-inland-empire-2\/\">reports<\/a> that the drug, along with large quantities of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine were found in two stash houses\u00a0 rural Riverside County, CA. and at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry a few miles south of downtown San Diego.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The drugs seized at the border were in a tractor-trailer supposedly hauling medical supplies.\u00a0 DEA officials told reporters that &#8220;Nearly all of the meth distributed within the United States is produced in huge quantities in industrial labs in Mexico.&#8221;\u00a0 Agents noted that the massive quantities of drugs clearly indicates the involvement of a major drug cartel.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-california-national-guard-withdraw-immigration-20190211-story.html\">reported<\/a> on California Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s decision to pull national guard troops off the state&#8217;s southern border after calling the President&#8217;s border security emergency &#8220;a manufactured crisis..&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration seized the largest cache of methamphetamine in history earlier this month.\u00a0 The Mercury News reports that the drug, along with large quantities of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine were found in two stash houses\u00a0 rural Riverside County, CA. and at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry a few miles south of downtown San Diego.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DEA Makes Largest Meth Bust in U.S. History - Crime &amp; 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