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Carola Guerrero De León

Man Faces Life Sentence for Trafficking More Than a Million Fentanyl Pills in Pallets of Limes

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection patch on the uniform of Rodolfo Karisch, Rio Grande Valley sector chief patrol agent for the U.S. Border Patrol. (Credit: Alex Edelman/Getty Images)

A Mexican man is facing life in prison after pleading guilty in what authorities have called "one of the largest fentanyl cases" prosecuted in the Southern District of Texas.

Juan Jesus Orozco-Vargas, 38, admitted to attempting to distribute more than 1.4 million fentanyl pills. According to authorities, the drugs were hidden within pallets of limes.

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