DPS Nets Millions of Dollars of Cocaine

DEL RIO, February 26, 2008 - A Piedras Negras, Mexico resident was arraigned this morning in Del Rio on federal drug charges in connection with the seizure of 360 pounds of cocaine in Kinney County.

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The cocaine, with an estimated street value of $3 million, was discovered in 142 individual packages in a secret compartment in a flatbed trailer, after a DPS trooper noticed abnormalities in the trailer.

DPS Commercial Vehicle Enforcement troopers stopped the flatbed tractor trailer for a routine inspection Sunday afternoon on eastbound U.S. 90 about 18 miles west of Brackettville at the Kinney/Val Verde County line. Investigators believe the truck was traveling from the Del Rio area to either Houston or Dallas.
DPS Narcotics investigators are continuing the investigation.

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