Mexican authorities in the border state of Sonora stopped a white tractor-trailer headed to Arizona this week. Upon inspection, they discovered boxes filled with sliced cactus pads—a staple product of Mexico—along with a far more lucrative (albeit illegal) item hidden among the greens: 32 kilograms of fentanyl worth more than $6 million.
The 29-year-old driver was immediately identified as a suspect and arrested on the spot, approximately 400 miles south of the Mexico-U.S. border. Among the cargo he was transporting to the United States were 30 black packages containing around 275,000 fentanyl pills and two white packages of the drug in powder form, per the Associated Press.
