Almost $1 Million Worth Of Coke Found In Box Of Bell Peppers in South Texas

Authorities in South Texas found a very expensive box of bell peppers after they pulled over a truck driver on Tuesday near Robstown.

The driver was initially pulled over for a routine traffic violation outside of Corpus Christi, but became nervous when questioned by Robstown Police officers. When asked by officers if they could search the 18-wheeler, the driver said yes, KIITV reported.

Drug-stiffing K9s tipped the officers off about the cocaine inside the truck. Officers started unloading the truck when they found the bell pepper box.

"One of the Robstown officers saw that one of the bell pepper boxes look like it had been crushed, and it looked messed up. So I just kept looking around outside of it with a flashlight and sure enough he saw bundles inside that one box," said Mike Tamez, an officer with the Nueces County District Attorney's Criminal Interdiction Unit, which helped Robstown police search the truck.

Under the bell peppers were 36 kilos of cocaine, which is valued at nearly $1 million.

The driver faces one charge of a possession of a controlled substance, but that could change if federal authorities take over the investigation.

This isn't the only have bell peppers have shown up in a drug bust. Someone tried to hide $14 million worth of meth in a commercial shipment of bell peppers at the U.S.-Mexico border near Pharr, Texas last year.

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