Mexican truck driverbrings in 1.75 million of cocaine, hiden in his 18 wheeler. This is why Mexican trucks want to enter the USA.


Over $2 million in illegal drugs found on I-40
Troopers intercept cocaine, marijuana in routine traffic stops near Forrest City

Published: December 17, 2007

Arkansas State Police on Friday intercepted more than $2 million in illegal drugs that were being transported on Interstate 40 through Forrest City.


On Friday morning, troopers found 22 pounds of marijuana inside a car, and on Friday afternoon found over 35 pounds of cocaine inside an 18-wheeler.

The 18-wheeler car hauler was stopped just before 2 p.m. near the 246 eastbound mile marker after a trooper said the driver of the truck was following too closely behind another vehicle.

The driver, Juan Carlos Rivera Orzaga, 38, of Mexico, gave the trooper his Mexican driver’s license and told the officer he was taking the only car on the trailer, a 1994 Mercury Grand Marquis, which the trooper noted was in poor condition, to Birmingham, Ala. A passenger in the truck’s sleeper was identified as Jose Maldonado Fernandez, 41, of Mexico.

The trooper reported he suspected “criminal activityâ€