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00:00With medications in Mexico up to 70% cheaper than in the U.S., this bridge is also a target

00:10for pill smugglers.

00:12There's a lot of people going for medication, people trying to lie.

00:16For whatever reason, there's always forever going to be good people and bad people.

00:21Today, officers have stopped a traveler returning to the U.S. with a bottle of the anti-anxiety

00:28medication, Xanax.

00:31He openly declared the pills, saying they help him in his career as a stand-up comedian.

00:39Tommy.

00:39Yes, sir.

00:40What do you do up north?

00:41Organize concerts and events.

00:43I do get medication for anxiety, so being on stage, it does cause a lot of anxiety.

00:50Nobody tells you how much the adrenaline dump is going to be after you perform live.

00:54According to him, had it prescribed here in the U.S.

00:56His prescription ran out, his insurance ran out, so he's going to Mexico to buy the medication.

01:03Although the meds are within the legal limits, Officer Ortega is concerned they might not

01:10be what they've seen.

01:11Usually, the Xanax that we see is a white and purple box with a glass container.

01:18The pills are white in color.

01:19This one seems to be a different box.

01:22It looks kind of generic.

01:24The pill itself is yellow, so that in itself, very different from what we used to see.

01:30It's estimated that more than half of all prescription medication pills sold in Mexico

01:35are counterfeit and often dangerous.

01:40Officer Ortega decides to conduct a chemical test.

01:44Here we have half of one of the pills.

01:46We're going to go ahead and swab the pill, put it in a little tube with a liquid, and

01:52then find out if it's going to be positive or not.

01:54The color of the tablets suggests they may be fentanyl, a synthetic pain reliever that

02:01is 50 times more potent than heroin.

02:04It's increasingly manufactured illegally by the Mexican cartels in clandestine laboratories.

02:12Go ahead and dip our testing strip into the solution.

02:17Positive, we want to see one line.

02:19If it's negative, we're going to have two red lines.

02:21We're looking at a positive test for fentanyl.

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