SAN DIEGO—A trucker who was arrested last year after authorities say he was caught with record-breaking amounts of meth and fentanyl inside his truck while trying to cross into the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry was sentenced Oct. 14 to nine years in prison.
Carlos Martin-Quintana-Arias, a Mexican resident whose age was not disclosed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, was arrested on Nov. 18, 2021, after 17,584 pounds of meth and 388.93 pounds of fentanyl were seized from the trailer of his truck.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, both amounts mark the largest seizures of either drug in the entire United States in either 2021 or 2022 thus far….