Law Enforcement ‘Finding Fentanyl in Everything’ from Skittles to Vaping Pens Coming Across Border

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, California — Law enforcement along the United States-Mexico border and in California’s border communities are finding the deadliest of drugs, fentanyl, in just about everything from bags of Skittles to vaping pens.

As President Joe Biden’s administration considers fighting to keep mask mandates on Americans traveling on domestic commercial flights and buses, law enforcement officials say they are witnessing firsthand an epidemic far greater than the Chinese coronavirus.

“We’re finding fentanyl in everything,” Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said at a meeting with Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ken Calvert (R-CA) this week.

Fentanyl, of which two milligrams can kill one person, is primarily manufactured in China before being flown into Mexico where the Mexican drug cartels then traffic the drug into American communities via the nation’s porous southern border.

Many of the factories where fentanyl is laced into drugs sit right on the border. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco revealed that in some cases, the Mexican drug cartels are now making their deadly product in the U.S.- READ MORE