MEXICO CITY — Prosecutors in Mexico say police found 660 pounds of fentanyl pills packed into coconuts. The coconuts were found in a truck traveling on a highway in the northern border state of Sonora.
Prosecutors said the truck was detected Thursday on a road that runs along the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez.
#FGR, adscritos a la @PGR_AIC, aseguraron en Sonora aproximadamente 300 kilogramos de una sustancia con características propias del fentanilo, en un camión que transportaba cocos.
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According to photos of the bust, the coconut husks had been neatly split in half, and re-assembled with plastic bags of fentanyl pills inside.
The road eventually leads to the border town of Sonoyta, across the border from Lukeville, Arizona.