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Police Seize Shipment of Cocaine Hidden in Garlic

(Valparaiso, IN) - Indiana State Police found a stash of cocaine hidden in the payload of garlic. 

 

Earlier this week, officers responded to an I-94 way station near Valparaiso after inspectors found something a little extra in a semi carrying 18000 pounds of minced garlic.  Police found about 50 kilos of a white substance that later tested to be cocaine. 

 

The truck's occupants, two men from California, were taken into custody.  The alleged drugs have a street value of between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. 

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