U.S. Border Patrol agents on March 11 arrested a 28-year-old man suspected of smuggling almost $300,000 worth of methamphetamine and fentanyl through an immigration checkpoint near Salton City, California.
The man was arrested with more than 60 pounds of methamphetamine with a street value of almost $216,000 and about five pounds of fentanyl valued at about $84,000, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a March 14 statement.
