Source: Houston Chronicle, page 33A
(http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/97/09/13/cocaine.20.html)
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$11 million worth of cocaine seized

McALLEN (AP) A 68yearold McAllen man was arrested
Friday after U.S. Border Patrol agents found more than 350
pounds of cocaine in his car, hidden in a bag of dishwashing
detergent, the agency said.

The Border Patrol valued the drugs at more than $11 million.

When the driver became nervous, an agent conducted a search
of the 1996 Buick Roadmaster at the Sarita Border Patrol
checkpoint and 127 bricks of cocaine were found in an
industrialsize bag of detergent in the vehicle's trunk,
agents said.

The cocaine was turned over to the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration in Corpus Christi.