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The Fentanyl Crisis

  How the fentanyl crisis at the Mexico border affects Central Texas   Here is quote from the above article: 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 crisi...