Overview
- A coordinated team from the Navy, Security Ministry, National Prosecutor's Office, Defense, National Guard and Customs executed the interception at AICM.
- Intelligence and import surveillance flagged an inbound parcel from an Asia-based company that was declared as cosmetics.
- X-ray screening and a customs detection dog named Nestor led agents to conduct a detailed inspection.
- Agents found a hermetically sealed plastic bag with about one kilogram of white powder that tested positive by infrared identification for fentanyl hydrochloride.
- The sample was sent to the central Customs laboratory for verification, and authorities estimate the seizure blocked roughly 1,040,000 doses valued at about $20 million as ministerial investigators continue the case.