(Quintana Arias sentenced)...He was sentenced to 108 months or 9 years in Prison.

The Mexican National was arrested in 2021. He was the driver of the big rig hauling a record amount of narcotics crossing into the United States. It occured at the Border Crossing in Otay Mesa. Customs an Border Protection Officers seized 17,584 pounds of methamphetamine and over 388 pounds of fentanyl. It was a record breaking seizure. The sentence was the result of a plea deal. The San Diego CBP Field Office says the San Diego and Imperial Valley Ports of entry account for approximately 61 percent of all the Fentanyl seized nationwide.