The Fentanyl Crisis

 

How the fentanyl crisis at the Mexico border affects Central Texas

 

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By: Cierra Shipley

Posted at 5:09 PM, Jun 03, 2021

and last updated 7:47 PM, Jun 03, 2021

WACO, TX — The fentanyl crisis at the Texas/Mexico border continues as just this year an 800% increase in seizures occurred in the first four months of 2021 than the last four years combined.

This may be a crisis increasing a few hundred miles away but that doesn't mean it can't make its way to us, here in Central Texas.

"We're right between Austin and Dallas so that just makes us a melting pot of all kinds of stuff," Waco PD PIO Officer Garen Bynum said.

I-35 is a drug trafficking corridor that runs right through Waco, so it's easy for drugs to come from Mexico. Regarding fentanyl, there is no crisis here yet but that doesn't mean Waco PD isn't on the lookout.

"We are encountering it and it's usually in small amounts anywhere from 1 to 5 cases a year," Officer Bynum said.

Governor Abbott recently visited the border to see how officials and officers are handling the situation.

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