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Border Patrol seizes 27 pounds of cocaine from car in Temecula

Agents from the U.S. Border Patrol seized 27 pounds of cocaine during a vehicle stop on Interstate 15 in Temecula, authorities said today. Coke load 001

Agents were patrolling the interstate near a Border Patrol checkpoint about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday when they stopped a northbound Toyota Corolla.

With the aid of a drug-sniffing dog, agents found 10 bundles of the drug inside the dashboard, the agency said. The cocaine has a street value of more than $270,000 and was turned over to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.


The driver, a 30-year-old woman and U.S. citizen, was arrested on suspicion of cocaine smuggling, 
according to the Border Patrol.

-- Robert J. Lopez

Photo: Bundled cocaine behind the dashboard. Credit: U.S. Border Patrol


 
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There goes the supply!

Now this is the kind of work the DEA can be proud of instead of harassing poor medical marijuana users.

Dirty criminal US citizens making this country filthier everyday!!!!...

what? wouldn't this have been on your mind if it were a Mexican citizen?

Toyota Corolla - hmmm, was it pulled over for excessive uncontrolled acceleration?

Oh she was a Mexican. Don't let the US Citizen description fool you.

Wasting more tax dollars busting people for supplying what people demand. Great.


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