CBP seizes two shipments of GBL and DMT
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Philadelphia seized two shipments of dangerous controlled substances – gamma butyrolactone (GBL), a date-rape precursor, and dimethyltryptamine (DMT), an LSD-like hallucinogenic – that arrived on 20 January 2022 in express delivery parcels from overseas.
The first parcel, destined to an address in Chicago, arrived from Germany and contained ten bottles that were manifested as “butanediol samples.” Officers tested the liquid and identified it as GBL.
The second parcel arrived from the Netherlands and was manifested as “mimosa tenuiflora” and contained more than 25 kg of tree bark pieces. The tree bark pieces tested positive for DMT. So far this fiscal year, CBP officers have seized roughly 20 kg of GBL and around 53 kg of DMT. (cj)