Mexican Man Detained In Florida While Carrying Thousands Of Fentanyl Pills Inside Children's Toy

A Mexican man has been arrested in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after being caught with tens of thousands of fentanyl pills hidden inside a children's toy.

Infobae noted that Drug Enforcement Agency agents were inspecting Guillermo "N"'s car when a drug-sniffing dog alerted officers of the presence of narcotics in the vehicle.

Agents then opened the car, finding several boxes and a toy school bus filled with more than 50,000 fentanyl pills, weighing roughly 5 kilograms.

Authorities also noted that the man was in the U.S. unlawfully and he had been deported five times in the past.

Law enforcement agencies routinely disclose such cases. For example, agents working at the Nogales port of entry in Arizona reported last month that they seized almost a million fentanyl pills over the course of a month.

Border Report detailed that the seizures took place over a 30-day period ending on September 24. Half of them were found in a single incident on the week ending September 2, the outlet added, quoting Nogales U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Director Laura E. Hermosillo.

The largest incident was on September 19 after officials found dozens of bundles containing almost 178,000 pills inside a vehicle. It also had 30 pounds of methamphetamine. A week earlier, a man was stopped while carrying what he described as luggage. After inspection officials found almost 165,000 pills.

Another large incident took place in September when the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced the arrest of 617 individuals linked to the Sinaloa Cartel and the seizure of significant amounts of illicit drugs, including nearly half a ton of fentanyl powder.

The agency noted that officials "across 23 domestic field divisions and seven foreign regions" orchestrated a coordinated operation targeting one of the world's most violent drug networks from sources to streets during the last week of August. The operation resulted in 480 kilograms (1,058.2 pounds) of fentanyl powder, equal to more than a thousand pounds, along with more than 714,000 counterfeit pills containing fentanyl.