Three Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Florida After Boat Landing – But They’re Not From Cuba; From China to Mexico to NYC: How fentanyl became ‘a weapon of mass destruction’ in the US

Three Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Florida After Boat Landing – But They’re Not From Cuba:

Border Patrol agents in Florida took three illegal migrants from China into custody Saturday after the group’s boat landed on the shore in a suspected smuggling attempt.

The group washed up in Hillsboro Beach, according to a tweet posted by Miami Sector Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar.

In less than a week, Border Patrol reported over 150 encounters by boat of mostly Cubans, according to Slosar’s twitter.

Three Chinese nationals were taken into #BorderPatrol custody after making landfall at Hillsboro Beach. Agents with support from @CBPAMORegDirSE & @browardsheriff responded to a suspected maritime smuggling event late Friday evening. The investigation is ongoing.#cbp #florida pic.twitter.com/jcqhkcDxmq

— Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar (@USBPChiefMIP) September 3, 2022

The sector has seen a recent influx of migrant crossings. —>READ MORE HERE

From China to Mexico to NYC: How fentanyl became ‘a weapon of mass destruction’ in the US:

In the dark hours before dawn, there’s no busier place than the Hunts Point produce market in The Bronx, where throngs of chefs, grocers and deli owners jockey each morning to snag the plumpest peaches and leafiest lettuce.

But the bazaar, which handles as many as 30 million pounds of goods per day and is the largest produce outlet in the nation, also provides perfect cover for the importing of fentanyl, America’s deadliest drug, which smugglers sneak into New York amid boxes of fruits and vegetables, according law-enforcement officials.

Once fentanyl reaches the market, traffickers move it to nearby apartments where the drug gets chopped up and packaged into small glassine envelopes. The drugs are then sold on the streets of the city — and up and down the East Coast.

“It comes in with the produce,” said Bridget Brennan, who heads the city’s Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor, noting that densely packed fentanyl bricks, hidden in box trucks and 18-wheelers, travel by highways from the border with Mexico to the Great Lakes region before coming east. —>READ MORE HERE

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