Arizona troopers seize over $4 million of narcotics in tractor-trailer
A visitors cease by an Arizona State Trooper netted a cache of medicine valued at greater than $4 million lately.
In response to the Arizona Division of Public Security, on the morning of Monday, Feb. 20, a trooper initiated a visitors cease on the motive force of a business motorized vehicle on Mariposa Street east of Interstate 19 in Nogales, Arizona.
Through the business car inspection, the trooper noticed a number of indicators of prison exercise. A subsequent search of the business car led to the invention of the next hid throughout the semi-trailer:
- About 1,035 kilos of suspected methamphetamine
- About 173 kilos of suspected fentanyl tablets (about 784,000 tablets)
- About 21.75 kilos of suspected cocaine
The motive force, a 38-year-old male from Nogales, Sonora, was booked into the Santa Cruz County Detention Middle on fees together with possession and transportation of a narcotic drug on the market and possession and transportation of a harmful drug on the market.
The DPS mentioned the road worth of the methamphetamine seized is estimated at simply over $1 million, whereas the estimated worth for the fentanyl seized is roughly $3.1 million. The estimated road worth of the cocaine is roughly $197,000.
This marked the second main drug seizure by Arizona State Troopers in a four-day interval.
On Thursday, Feb. 16, troopers seized 286 kilos of suspected fentanyl tablets – about 1,297,000 tablets – following a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 10 in Sacaton. The motive force of the car concerned was hospitalized with life-threatening accidents. The estimated road worth of the fentanyl seized in that incident was about $5.1 million.
