Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Discovers Four Kilograms of Cocaine During I-30 Traffic Stop

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Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 30 year old Laredo man on Thursday that was in possession of over 4 kilograms of cocaine.

HCSO K-9 Deputy Patterson conducted a traffic stop on Interstate 30 near the 137 mile marker. During the course of the traffic stop K-9 Chiv was deployed and alerted to the presence of narcotics in the lower baggage compartment.

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The occupants of the bus were asked to grab their luggage from the storage area on the bottom of the bus. A passenger, Angel Hernandez, did not claim any luggage and there was a single luggage bag left unclaimed.

The tag on the unclaimed baggage matched a tag in Hernandez’s bag which he had with him in the passenger compartment. Inside the unclaimed baggage was 4.4 kilograms / 4,400 grams of cocaine which field tested positive for cocaine.

Hernandez was transported the HCSO Detention Center where he was booked into jail for Possession of a Controlled Substance Greater than 400 Grams.

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