A southern Texas man was arrested after the seizure of 50 kilograms of cocaine just outside Louisville, Kentucky.
The Jeffersontown Police Department took 44-year-old Brownsville resident Eduardo Javier Tapia into custody on Wednesday.
Jeffersontown Police Chief Richard Sanders said the street value for the cocaine would have been worth more than $5 million.
According to an arrest citation, officers noticed Tapia was driving a truck with a cracked front windshield. Police said when he pulled into a parking lot, he told officers that he was checking into a hotel.
The arrest citation also stated the officers asked him to search the truck, where he immediately declined and became upset. An officer immediately requested a K-9 drug dog.
K-9 officer Maya gave a positive alert on his truck where the officers found the cocaine.
Sanders said Jeffersontown PD is working with the FBI on the investigation to determine where the drugs came from.
Source: WAVE
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