Enrique Perez, 44, was charged with felony drug possession after authorities said they found $5 million worth of Mexican cartel drugs stashed in the gas tank of his SUV in the Bronx on Sunday.
A crafty drug smuggler for a Mexican cartel was nabbed in The Bronx with 300,000 fentanyl-laced pills stashed in the gas tank of his SUV, authorities alleged Wednesday.
An NYPD K-9 unit was initially confused after sniffing out drugs in the car — until cops figured out the stash was in the gas tank, prosecutors alleged. “At a time when our city’s overdose rates are at a record high, the discovery of more than 11 pounds of powdered fentanyl and hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills manufactured to look like prescription pills, concealed in the gas tank of a truck near the Bronx courthouse is truly alarming,” Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said in a statement.
“While we hit the accelerator on our enforcement efforts, the cartels go to extremes to conceal illicit drugs in implausible spots like the gas tank of a vehicle,” Tarentino said.
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