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Two truckers arrested in N.C. after 120 gallons of liquid meth found in fuel tank
Raul Arreola and Aquileo Pineda were arrested and charged with trafficking an estimated $90.8 million worth of liquid methamphetamine in North Carolina.
May 21, 2018
Business
Trucking rap sheet: Trucker sentenced in homicide case, drivers involved in drug trafficking
A Georgia truck driver was sentenced for homicide of Georgia Port Authority officer, a trucker got 30 years for drug trafficking, another driver was arrested for having more than 1,500 pounds of marijuana in his truck and more.
August 31, 2017
Business
Trucker caught with 715 pounds of marijuana at Tinker Air Force Base in OKC
A narcotics agent was reportedly performing military duty at the base and found duffel bags containing marijuana in the trailer during a routine inspection of the truck at the base’s gate.
June 22, 2017
Business
California trucker to serve nearly 4 years in prison after being caught with 44 pounds of cocaine
During a traffic stop, Kansas Highway Patrol troopers found 10 vacuum-wrapped packages containing 44 pounds of cocaine hidden in the reefer unit on the trailer.
May 23, 2017
Business
Trucking co. owner arrested for allegedly using business to traffic drugs
“Businesses that he was hauling legitimate loads for probably had no idea what else was in his truck. He would go and pick up loads for various businesses and put his own product on there, too.”
August 10, 2016
Voices
Roadside Attractions
An Oreo design hits the spot, drug trafficking, a truck beauty calendar and ride-along pets are among the trucking news items featured.
January 5, 2011
Channel 19
Growing mode for cartel drug trafficking: Class 8 trucks, says NPR
In a story that aired on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” program Monday, John Burnett dropped what is to my thinking a recently developing bombshell on hopes from some that a resolution to the U.S.-Mexican cross-border trucking stalemate would be soon in coming. “In Nuevo Laredo,” he wrote, site of the high-volume trade border […]
November 10, 2010
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