Texas Trooper Seizes More Than $2.7 Million In Heroin

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AMARILLO (AP) - The Texas Department of Public Safety says a trooper conducting a traffic stop in the Panhandle discovered nine bundles of heroin worth more than $2.7 million in a backpack.

DPS says a trooper pulled the driver over Sunday afternoon on Interstate 40 about 30 miles east of Amarillo for a traffic violation. During the stop, the trooper found the taped bundles of heroin in a backpack in the vehicle's trunk.

The driver, 24-year-old Jessie Beltran of Thermal, California, was arrested for possession of a controlled substance.

Beltran was booked into the Carson County jail and remained there Monday on $50,000 bond. A jail official said their records did not list an attorney for Beltran.

DPS says the drugs were allegedly being transported from Phoenix to Oklahoma City.

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