LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan State Police (MSP) from the Monroe Publish Industrial Automobile Enforcement Division (CVED) confiscated greater than $1.8 million price of cocaine throughout a visitors cease Tuesday.
Vacuum-sealed packages of cocaine (Michigan State Police) Vacuum-sealed packages of cocaine (Michigan State Police)
Vacuum-sealed packages of cocaine (Michigan State Police)
MSP studies in a X publish that CVED officers had been working on the northbound I-75 weigh station close to Monroe when a 2018 Kenworth truck tractor with a flatbed drove previous the scales and did not cease at roughly 9:15 p.m.
Officers stopped the motive force a short while later, a 26-year-old man from Ontario, Canada.
The driving force claimed that he was touring from Ohio after selecting up a load and was heading again to Canada.
Officers got consent to look the car and located 4 U-Haul cardboard bins with a complete of 70 vacuum-sealed packages within the trailer storage compartment. A number of of those packages examined optimistic for cocaine.
MSP says that the motive force denied any information of the medication. He was arrested and brought to the Monroe County Jail on a cost of possession with intent to ship cocaine over 1000 grams.
Based on MSP, the price for a kilogram of cocaine can range between $13,000-$26,000, that means this load would have a most worth of roughly $1,820,000.