Mexican prosecutors said police found 300 kilograms of fentanyl tablets hidden in coconuts, the Associated Press reported.

The drug was in a truck traveling on a highway in the northern border state of Sonora.

Prosecutors also said the truck was intercepted Thursday on a road that runs along the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of ​​Cortez.

Photos from the police operation show that the coconut shells were split in two and then put together, with a plastic bag containing pills placed inside.

The road the truck was traveling on led to the border town of Sonoita.

Opposite it, on the American side of the border, is the city of Lukeville in the state of Arizona.

Mexico produces most of the fentanyl that enters the US, using chemical precursors imported from China and elsewhere.

Fentanyl is responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths annually in the United States.

It is an extremely powerful synthetic opioid and is pressed into tablets made to look like Xanax, Oxycodone or Percocet, BTA adds.

Many people who take fentanyl do not realize what drug they are taking.

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