A drug-sniffing dog found more than 68 pounds of cocaine stashed inside the back seat and in the rear bumper of a Volkswagen Jetta. The seizure occurred when a border patrol agent pulled over the Jetta near the agency's highway checkpoint.
While questioning the driver, the agent smelled an excessive amount of air freshener in the car, a common trick of drug smugglers to mask the odor of drug in a vehicle. Agents began searching the car when the drug-sniffing dog indicated there were narcotics in the car.
This is the fourth Border Patrol cocaine seizure along this stretch of I-15 in February 2009. The agency said the route is popular with traffickers bringing drugs from Mexico.
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