Mexico seizes 300 kilos of fentanyl detected in coconuts heading to the US border.

The Mexican Attorney General's Office reported this Friday the seizure of some 300 kilos of fentanyl, which were detected in palm coconuts that were transported in a truck bound for the border with the United States.

According to the images, the fruits were split in half and

presumably fentanyl.

The discovery comes after the drug returned to the center of the debate in the case of a baby who almost lost his life after apparently intoxicating himself with fentanyl in a park in San Francisco, and in a series of cases of children and adolescents who have result exposed to the drug.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has assured that there is "a wave of fentanyl and methamphetamine being pushed from Mexico to the United States."

However, authorities have dismantled clandestine laboratories that produce the pills on US soil, with a recently busted fentanyl manufacturing network in California.

Drug overdoses have already become the leading cause of death for young people in Los Angeles County. 

Hundreds of blue pills

The Mexican prosecutor's office indicated in a statement that agents of the institution, attached to the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), found in the state of Sonora, northwestern Mexico, "approximately 300 kilograms of a substance with characteristics of fentanyl," in a vehicle carrying coconuts.

Prosecutor's Office personnel review the drug shipment found in Puerto Libertad. Attorney General of Mexico / EFE

The seizure of the substance occurred in a stretch of highway that leads to Puerto Libertad, a town and port in the state of Sonora, which is located on the northern coast of the Gulf of California, in the municipality of Pitiquito, some 93 miles (150 kilometers ) from the border between Sonora and Arizona, United States.

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The Mexican authorities detailed, according to the EFE agency, that under the leadership of the Public Ministry of the Federation (MPF), in its Sonora delegation, the Federal Ministerial Police moved to highway section 26, Puerto Libertad, where it completed the procedure and He managed to arrest two people.

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"The insured and the detainees were made available to the MPF, who is carrying out the corresponding investigation," said the prosecutor's office, without offering more details about how the operation or the finding was.

A Mexican cartel, behind the rainbow fentanyl

In mid-November, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Mexican cartel La Nueva Familia Michoacana and its leaders, Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga and José Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga, for international drug trafficking. .

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The agency reported through a statement that the Nueva Familia Michoacana smuggles illicit drugs into and through the US and is

.

According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), this drug comes in pill/powder form with a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes and is made to appeal to children and youth.