Orange County Register

A K-9 police officer with the Border Patrol earned his kibble today when he alerted officers to drugs concealed in a pickup truck stopped in San Clemente.

Here are the details, provided by the Border Patrol:

At around 11:15 a.m., agents on patrol stopped a Dodge Durango truck near the Avenida Magdalena exit in San Clemente.

The agents interviewed the driver, a 27-year-old male Mexican citizen in possession of a permanent resident alien identification card, living in San Ysdiro. The agents requested to search the vehicle and were granted permission.

A Border Patrol K-9 team conducted a cursory inspection of the vehicle, at which point the K-9 officer alerted on the vehicle. A physical search revealed 12 bundles of crystal methamphetamine inside a black duffel bag behind the driver’s seat.

The driver was arrested for suspicion of drug smuggling.

The crystal methamphetamine weighed nearly 15.4 pounds with an estimated street value of $356,000. The suspected smuggler and the narcotics were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The vehicle was seized by the U.S. Border Patrol.

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