Thursday, February 16, 2012

$2.8 million in drugs, cash seized in Alpharetta

Who would have thunk'.........?

Via Tom

A traffic stop in north Fulton County led to the seizure of $2.8 million worth of cocaine, methamphetamine and cash, police said Wednesday.

Georgia state troopers stopped a brown Honda Accord on Jan. 26 within the Alpharetta city limits and arrested the driver, Ignacio Abarca Pineda, 27, who had only a Mexican driver's license and no proof of ownership for the car, George Gordon, Alpharetta police spokesman, said Wednesday.

Inside the car, investigators found 87 kilograms of cocaine, one kilogram of methamphetamine and four large bags of U.S. currency in excess of $130,000 dollars, Gordon said. The total value of the seized narcotics and currency is estimated at $2.8 million dollars, police said.

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