deadly pills. fox news followed officers at the nogales port of entry and several bundles were hidden in the gas tank of a pickup truck. how did they find these in a gas tank? i will show you, dana. this is the busiest checkpoint between arizona and mexico but it s 120 years old and very narrow canyon. if i take you on top you can see the long line of cars, trucks, people waiting to get in, most, of course, are basically going to carry their they re coming for work and cargo, some are carrying drugs, specifically fentanyl. in fact, they have seized more than 4 million pills here since august at this port alone. double last year with the bust we witnessed yesterday. a few moments ago officers noticed something irregular about the truck. pulled into secondary inspection. when they dropped the gas tank
this del rio sector includes 450,000 illegal crossings so far this year. that is double the number this same time last year. lastly, take a look at this major fentanyl bust at the nogales port of entry in arizona. cbp agents stopping a vehicle driven by a snug glory who had 2,276,000 fentanyl pills hidden in his vehicle in the spare tire. 146,000 of those pills were those rainbow colored fentanyl pills that the dea is warning cartels are using to target a younger user base. in fact, out here border patrol in del rio sector report they recently arrested a convicted murderer from nicaragua. he was previously convicted of murder in miami in 1996. they say they found him walking on a local highway with a group. they took him into custody and realized he had been deported two previous times, as recently as this past june. thankfully, they caught him again. we will send it back to you. pete: bill, thank you so much. we cannot become numb to this.