47,340 oxycodone tablets seized at border

Adriana Morfin-Paniagua, an American citizen living in Tijuana, was arrested yesterday (March 8) and charged with importing 47,340 tablets of oxycodone, an opioid, worth at least $1.42 million.

They have an illegal street value of $30 to $40 per tablet.

She was stopped at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. The seizure is believed to be the largest of oxycodone along the southwest border in the past five years.