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YUMA, Ariz. (CNN) – Border officials busted a man trying to smuggle opioids hidden inside breakfast burritos.
A Customs and Border Protection K-9 alerted them to the drugs at an immigration checkpoint in Arizona on Monday. The fentanyl-stuffed burritos were inside the backpack of a 37-year-old man traveling in an SUV.
Officials arrested the man and seized the drugs.
The drugs weighed in at more than 5 pounds and had a street value of nearly $60,000.
Fentanyl is of specific concern to law enforcement because it is a large component of the opioid crisis.
This marks the second time in as many months officials have intercepted drug-laced breakfast food. In February, federal agents in Cincinnati found nearly $3 million worth of corn flakes coated with cocaine heading for Hong Kong from South America.
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