U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the El Paso area ports of entry have encountered individuals attempting to smuggle fentanyl concealed internally within their bodies over the past week.
Within days of each other, Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents discovered undocumented individuals using railcars as a dangerous method of traveling further into the United States.
The female admitted to carrying narcotics on her body and voluntarily removed two bundles filled with blue pills from her rectal cavity. A total of .44 pounds of fentanyl was seized from both individuals.