The truck driver was arrested by a DPS trooper in northern Arizona after more than 550 pounds of cocaine was found.
DPS officials say the drugs seized during the traffic stop is estimated to have a street value of up to $22.1 million.
More than 550 pounds of cocaine was found hidden inside a shipment of produce inside a semi-truck in northern Arizona on Monday.
A man accused of trying to smuggle over 550 pounds of cocaine to Canada was arrested during a traffic stop in an eastern Arizona town.
NAVAJO COUNTY, Ariz. — Millions of dollars worth of cocaine was seized from a truck driver in Arizona during a traffic stop, according to officials. Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers made the massive drug bust during a traffic stop in Navajo County, the law enforcement agency said.
DPS said the 553.8 pounds of cocaine he allegedly was transporting ... while he was driving on the Interstate 40 in Holbrook, an eastern Arizona city around 186 miles north of Phoenix, on Monday.
Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers confiscated nearly 554 pounds of cocaine hidden within boxes on a tractor-trailer in Holbrook on Monday. The department estimates that cocaine is worth anywhere from $16.