Someone in South Africa shipped in enough drugs to kill 220,700 people, US authorities say

[rvZA]

The US Customs and Border Protection agency says it has seized a large quantity of deadly drugs in a shipment from South Africa it detained on 21 September.

In total, the fentanyl it found could have killed 220,700 people, the agency said in a statement this week.

The drugs were packed in a bottle labelled as "Hydrozone ph-Balance", a genuine product sold in Namibia. But instead of the advertised "proprietary blend of sodium bicarbonate, potassium citrate, magnesium chloride, calcium and boron", a customs inspection discovered it contained fentanyl, the hugely addictive synthetic opioid often added to heroin.

Clandestine fentanyl in the United States typically comes from Mexico.

The South African shipment was labelled as water purification chemicals, the border agency said, and also contained a small bag of cocaine, valued at about R60,000, that had been marked as a magnesium mix, and a small bag with more fentanyl that had been labelled as "bicarbonate minerals".

Someone in South Africa shipped in enough drugs to kill 220,700 people, US authorities say | News24

US Customs and Border Protection says it found fentanyl and a small amount of cocaine in a package labelled as water purification chemicals.

www.businessinsider.co.za

 

[saor]

What a weird way to phrase the amount of drugs: "enough to kill...."

 

[Not_original]

What a weird way to phrase the amount of drugs: "enough to kill...."

Fentanyl - so they got their hands on an envelope full of pure powder fentanyl, good for them.

 

[Defonotaltaccount]

This should read that someone brought in enough drugs for about 2 million people to have a really good weekend.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

What a weird way to phrase the amount of drugs: "enough to kill...."

Almost as if that person didn't get his cut. His us-cut...

 

[DreamKing]

Who is "someone"? someone from anc?

 

[LazyLion]

Whoops. sorry...

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

Who is "someone"? someone from anc?

They didnt say it was sent via couch, so that rules one out

 

[dualmeister]

Sorry, but it was a rough week.

 

[Quicks]

That's fokall we have Millions of retards in the country. I wonder how many of our population uses drugs, because I have seen some weird looking people on the streets.

Taxi drivers are either on drugs or drunk most of the time.

 

[Solarion]

Someone in SA has gone full Walter White.

 

[rvZA]

Someone in SA has gone full Walter White.

Was thinking about that too....

 

[Anthro]

Someone in SA has gone full Walter White.

Meet Nello Quagliani, a prime example of how shitty SA's law system can be.

GLOBAL DRUG TRADE: About time — Two decades after his arrest in SA, US extradites suspected drug smuggler Nello Quagliani

Wanted in the US for drug smuggling, he managed to avoid extradition for nearly 20 years. But he is now on American soil facing criminal charges.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

 

[Not_original]

Meet Nello Quagliani, a prime example of how shitty SA's law system can be.

GLOBAL DRUG TRADE: About time — Two decades after his arrest in SA, US extradites suspected drug smuggler Nello Quagliani

Wanted in the US for drug smuggling, he managed to avoid extradition for nearly 20 years. But he is now on American soil facing criminal charges.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

True

I am however inclined to feel slight sympathy towards their case. Mdma and fentanyl both go to the same jail cell, however, the patients/victims on the other side looks wildly different

 

[geezer]

What a weird way to phrase the amount of drugs: "enough to kill...."

Just the Americans always refusing to use the metric system.

 

[GhostSixFour]

Fentanyl - so they got their hands on an envelope full of pure powder fentanyl, good for them.

Erm...
Lethal dose is around 3g. So around 662,1 KG required to kill 220700 people. Don't know what envelopes you're carrying, but the post office would love it.

 

[Slootvreter]

What a ridiculous headline. Jesus.

 

[Thor]

SA is the new Russia

 

[Defiler]

Erm...
Lethal dose is around 3g. So around 662,1 KG required to kill 220700 people. Don't know what envelopes you're carrying, but the post office would love it.

You're a bit off mate, lethal dose for fentanyl is about 2-3mg (0.002 grams). One accidental whiff and you're dead.

 

[Not_original]

Erm...
Lethal dose is around 3g. So around 662,1 KG required to kill 220700 people. Don't know what envelopes you're carrying, but the post office would love it.

OK then my Google fu seems to be wrong
According to drug safety sites it is about 2mg

Edit :OK well according to @Defiler my Google fu seems spot on