The California Freeway Patrol discovered 15 lbs of cocaine with a avenue worth of $700,000 throughout a visitors cease in Merced Nation on April 27, the CHP reported.
Round 3:15 p.m., a 2010 Subaru driving on I-5 round 30 miles west of Merced was pulled over for a visitors violation. In the course of the cease, the officer grew to become suspicious and performed a search utilizing a Okay-9 officer, a CHP spokesman informed the Epoch Times.
“It was only a regular visitors cease,” stated CHP Officer Gregorio Rodriguez. “That’s type of what normally occurs. One thing was out of the strange. The officer did see some legal indicators and the canine hit on the baggage of almonds.”
In the course of the search, the police canine sniffed out the cocaine, divided into 1-kilogram quantities and manufacturing unit sealed inside luggage containing almonds. The motive force, 20-year-old Angel Lopez Velasco of Mt. Vernon, Washington, and his passenger, 20-year-old Jennifer Cisneros of Burlington Washington, have been arrested and booked into the Merced County Jail on suspicion of possessing a managed substance on the market, in addition to transporting a managed substance throughout noncontinguous counties.
The case is at present within the fingers of the Merced Space Gang Narcotics Enforcement staff, based on the report.
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