It appears there are a lot of drugs in Austin:

Austin police have confiscated more than $8 million worth of cocaine, heroin and marijuana in three separate cases over the past month — a figure law enforcement officials said was one of the largest in the department’s history even as the city has become a drug hub for Mexican cartels in recent years.

All of the investigations involved Mexican citizens and narcotics coming through the state’s southern border, said Sean Mannix, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department’s headquarters bureau. But it is difficult to quantify the large quantities of drugs flowing in through the city up Interstate 35 and how these seizures compare to those in other areas across the state, he said.

“The drug activity in Austin is indicative of a national problem,” he told reporters this morning at a media conference at the East Austin substation. “Any major urban environment is experiencing these types of issues right now.”