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| Texas man busted hauling $13M in cocaine through Indiana in record seizure, authorities say |
| 2022-12-08 |
| [FoxNews] A Texas man arrested in Indiana last month was hauling 130 kilos of suspected cocaine on I-70 in what local authorities called the largest seizure in decades. Maybe it won't be a white Christmas Mauro Alonzo-Vargas, 50, of Ennis, Texas, was stopped driving the semi on Nov. 30 after investigators acted on a tip that a shipment of drugs would be passing through Marion County, the Indianapolis Metro Police Department said Tuesday. Detectives deployed narcotics K-9 Mina who alerted authorities to a positive odor of drugs on the semi-tractor and trailer. Investigators then located approximately 130 kilos of suspected cocaine, with an estimated street value of $13 million, police said. "This is the largest seizure I’ve seen since I’ve been doing this work," Sgt. Paul McDonald, who has served with the department’s drug interdiction unit for 22 years, told FOX59 Indianapolis. "We’ve had some significant seizures, but this is the largest." While police said Alonzo-Vargas told officers that he planned to make what he described as a legitimate delivery in Plainfield, Indiana, the destination of the drugs was unclear, the station reported. "When you’re talking 130 kilos of cocaine, that’s a significant seizure no matter where you are," Mike Gannon, DEA assistant special agent in charge, told the outlet. "You know how many drug suppliers could be moving that on the streets in all different communities?" Alonzo-Vargas was booked into the Hendricks County Jail on a $20,000 cash bond. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #10 "So Mauro, how's that Door-Dash gig workin' out for ya?" |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2022-12-08 19:42 |
| #9 I usually have a different image of a 'Texas Man'. Texas launches task force with K9s, drones to stop illegal immigrant ‘gotaways’ amid spike in numbers Gettin more and more like that. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-12-08 11:57 |
| #8 I wonder how big the shipment that got through was. This is a decoy. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-12-08 09:50 |
| #7 Is the dog wired to that suicide package? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-12-08 09:37 |
| #6 narcotics K9, Mina WOOF! |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-12-08 09:35 |
| #5 Mauro Alonzo-Vargas, 50, of Ennis, Texas, I usually have a different image of a 'Texas Man'. |
| Posted by: Raj 2022-12-08 09:01 |
| #4 Otay Mesa CBP Officers Seize Over $3M of Meth Hidden in Shipment of Carrots |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-12-08 06:51 |
| #3 ^ embrace the power of "and" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-12-08 06:40 |
| #2 Ah'm assuming the packages are uncut. By the time it would have hit the street it may have been stepped on as much as 20x. So pricing projects this would have gone to distributors at 4x. Or the LEOs wanted to inflate their tally. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-12-08 06:19 |
| #1 I'll check but $13 million/130 = $100k/key. Sounds high (get it..) by a factor of 3 or 4. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2022-12-08 02:56 |