Border Patrol agents arrested a man Monday who had more than half a million dollars of cocaine hidden in his car.
At approximately noon, agents from the Newton-Azrak Station near Temecula stopped and questioned a 24-year-old U.S. citizen on Interstate 15. A nearby K-9 team conducted a sniff of the man’s car, and agents then searched the vehicle.
They discovered 20 bundles of cocaine hidden in the car’s rocker panels. The cocaine weighed approximately 51 pounds and has an estimated street value of $662,000.
Agents turned the man over to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The vehicle was seized by the Border Patrol.
