Florida
Florida K9 helps make nearly $700,000 heroin bust
HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida Ok-9 helped make practically a $700,000 drug bust throughout a visitors cease in Hernando County, troopers stated.
The Florida Freeway Patrol stated in a information launch Tuesday evening that Ok-9 Titan and a trooper made the massive bust on Tuesday afternoon.
In line with the discharge, the trooper pulled over a Jeep Grand Cherokee touring southbound on I-75 close to the 304 mile marker with a fraudulent Arizona license plate. That’s when K9 Titan sniffed out 5.5 kilos of heroin value in extra of $693,000.
Each occupants of the car, 33-year-old Maurilio Garcia-Torres and 19-year-old Ivania Riestra-Garcia have been decided to be undocumented aliens from Mexico.
Each have been arrested and delivered to the Hernando County Jail, charged with heroin trafficking, distribution of heroin and possession of a car for drug trafficking.