A Border Patrol canine sniffed out $60,000 worth of drugs stuffed inside breakfast burritos

• Border Patrol canines alerted agents of narcotics hidden inside breakfast burritos on Tuesday.
• Agents at the immigration center in Yuma, Arizona, found $60,000 worth of fentanyl in the burritos.
• A 37-year-old male driver was arrested and the drugs were seized.

A Border Patrol canine sniffed out $60,000-worth of fentanyl stuffed in breakfast burritos at an Arizona immigration checkpoint on Tuesday.

Canines alerted Border Patrol agents in Yuma, Arizona, to a Chervrolet Tahoe around 3 p.m. on Tuesday, according to a press release from the US Customs and Border Protection.

Inside the vehicle, agents searched a black backpack, which had several packages of fentanyl weighing just over five pounds hidden inside the burritos, the agency said.

"Smugglers are under the false assumption that they can disguise drugs within food to throw off canines and their handlers," the statement read. "On the contrary, canines have the ability to detect a target odor among a myriad of other odors."

The 37-year-old male driver of the vehicle, whom CBP identified to Fox News as Adrian Salgado-Corona and described as a "lawfully admitted permanent resident," was arrested and the narcotics were seized.

The incident occurred amid an overall "increase in the seizure of drugs in the Yuma Area of Responsibility of late," CBP told Fox News.