I-5 traffic stop yields 15 pounds of meth
I-5 traffic stop yields 15 pounds of meth
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:19 p.m.
SAN CLEMENTE — A San Ysidro man was arrested Thursday after Border Patrol agents uncovered 15 pounds of methamphetamine stuffed behind the driver’s seat of his pickup on Interstate 5 in San Clemente, just north of San Diego County, authorities said.
Agents stopped the driver of the Dodge Durango going north on the freeway near the Avenida Magdelena exit about 11:15 a.m. and asked if they could search his truck, the Border Patrol said.
The 27-year-old man, a Mexican citizen with a permanent resident alien identification card, granted permission. Agents found 12 bundles of methamphetamine in a black duffel bag behind his seat and arrested him on suspicion of drug smuggling. The drugs have an estimated street value of $350,000.
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