(CNN) – Two days in a row this week, Border Patrol officers busted someone with “rainbow fentanyl” crossing the Mexican border into Arizona.
The brightly colored pills look almost like candy.
8/17 CBP officers #Nogales POE seized over 15,000 fentanyl pills strapped to a person’s legs. Second consecutive day colored fentanyl pills with the appearance of candy seized .This could be the start of a trend with Transnational Criminal Organizations targeting younger users. pic.twitter.com/y5KT5Zveop
Officials in a number of states are seeing more of this kind of fentanyl and worry this “trend” could be a way of targeting younger users.
The pills confiscated at the border and pictured above were strapped to someone’s leg. Authorities discovered 15,000 of them.
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