126 Pounds Methamphetamine Seized In WA Truck Hauling Starbucks Food Products

A truck hauling Starbucks products traveling in Spokane Washington was found to be transporting a lot more than the popular coffee brand, officials seized 126 pounds of methamphetamine Thursday.

The powerful drug was hidden amongst Starbucks food products inside a semi-truck traveling between between California and Spokane, Wash., the Centralia Police Department said Friday.

During a traffic stop, the driver and passenger of a refrigerated 1996 Freightliner tractor began “acting suspiciously,” according to police. The behavior of the suspects prompted officers to call in a request for a narcotics-sniffing K-9.

The dog alerted officers to the presence of drugs in the truck’s cab, police said, and a search of the sleeper berth revealed 40 bundles of meth, weighing a total of 126 pounds, hidden in a television box. Also found were 2.4 pounds of suspected heroin, several thousand Oxycodone pills and a few grams of cocaine, police said. source

The driver of the truck, a 22-year-old man from Mexicali, Mexico, and his passenger, a 62-year-old man from Fontana, Calif., were booked into the Lewis County Jail on drug charges. The truck had California license plates.

“No contraband was found in the trailer and none of the food product in the trailer was exposed or compromised,” police said in a news release, adding that the load was transferred to another truck and continued on its way.