Trucker arrested for stashing $4.1 million in cocaine in load of stone
A trucker was arrested final week when greater than $4 million value of cocaine was found in his load of ornamental stone.
Based on an announcement from the company, U.S. Customs and Border Safety Officers on the Tecate Cargo Facility in San Diego discovered the cocaine Jan.11. Officers encountered a 36-year-old driver of a tractor-trailer with a cargo manifested as ornamental stone. Throughout the inspection, a CBP officer referred the driving force together with the tractor-trailer for a extra intensive examination.
Throughout the examination, CBP officers randomly offloaded one of many commodities inside the trailer and noticed an anomaly on one of many stones. A CBP Ok-9 crew screened the cargo and acquired a constructive alert from the detector canine.
Officers found 57 cellophane-wrapped packages of cocaine. The packages of cocaine had been hid inside a plaster-like materials designed to look like stones.CBP officers extracted roughly 256 kilos of cocaine value an estimated road worth of about $4.1 million.
CBP officers seized the narcotics, and the tractor,-trailer.
The motive force was detained for the alleged narcotic smuggling try. CBP officers turned the driving force, a Mexican citizen, over to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Safety Investigations.
