The Arizona Department of Public Safety said they arrested a tractor-trailer driver suspected of smuggling millions of dollars worth of cocaine from California. The arrest was made on Monday after a trooper initiated a traffic stop of a Volvo tractor-trailer on eastbound Interstate 49 in Holbrook for civil traffic violations.
A Volvo tractor-trailer Monday headed eastbound on Interstate 40 in Holbrook, Arizona with 553.8 pounds of cocaine hidden inside the produce load.
The truck driver was arrested by a DPS trooper in northern Arizona after more than 550 pounds of cocaine was found.
NAVAJO COUNTY, Ariz. — Millions of dollars worth of cocaine was seized from a truck driver in Arizona during a traffic stop, according to officials. Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers made the massive drug bust during a traffic stop in Navajo County, the law enforcement agency said.
The cocaine was stashed inside a produce load ... indicated the drugs were being smuggled from the cities of Salinas, California, and Los Angeles to Canada. Matharu was arrested and booked into ...