A Border Patrol canine sniffed out several packages of fentanyl pills that were hidden inside burritos this week in Arizona, officials said. “A canine handler referred the male driver of a Chevrolet Tahoe to the checkpoint’s secondary inspection area at approximately 3 p.m., after his canine partner alerted to the vehicle,” according to the agency. “While in secondary, the canine alerted to a black backpack that was located inside the vehicle. Agents searched the backpack and discovered several small packages containing fentanyl pills that were stuffed inside breakfast burritos.” Inside, they found about $60,000 worth of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has been singled out by federal officials as causing a drug epidemic leading to hundreds of thousands of overdoses across the United States in recent years. According to the Department of Justice (pdf), the “vast majority” of “illicit fentanyl-class substances and hundreds of synthetic drugs from at least eight …