More than $9 million worth of cocaine hidden in a secret compartment of a car driven from Mexico was seized during a traffic stop on Interstate 65, Saraland police said today.
The drugs, packaged in 84 bundles, were found about 11:30 a.m. May 31 near mile marker 16 in Saraland, according to a news release from Sgt. Leroy Smith of the Saraland Police Department.
Saraland Police Cpl. Greg Cully stopped the vehicle on a traffic violation and asked the driver to search the car, the release stated. Cully found a false compartment filled with 84 bundles of a white powdery substance, later identified as cocaine, the release stated. The cocaine has a street value of $9.7 million, police said.
Two people were in the car with the drugs, but Smith said this evening that he would not release what those people were charged with until a news conference held tomorrow morning to discuss the seizure.
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