LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Mesquite police seized about 68 kilos of methamphetamine with a road worth of $400,000 throughout a site visitors cease on Interstate 15 on Tuesday.
Fredys Ortega Perez, 30, of Large Lake, Minnesota, was arrested on drug trafficking prices. He’s within the Clark County Detention Middle in Las Vegas, awaiting an Aug. 27 arraignment listening to. His bail was set at $75,000.
Ortega Perez was pulled over after a Mesquite Police Division K9 officer seen he was driving erratically, “significantly below the speed limit,” in keeping with police. The cease occurred simply earlier than 10 a.m. about two miles from the Nevada-Arizona border.
He was driving with no legitimate license and could not present proof of registration, police stated.
The officer noticed indicators of drug trafficking, and one of many division’s licensed narcotics-detecting canine — K9 Rogue — was deployed. K9 Rogue alerted the officer to unlawful narcotics, police stated.
When the car was searched, a big duffel bag with 60 vacuum-sealed baggage of “a white crystal substance, suspected to be methamphetamine” was discovered.
The baggage additionally contained espresso grounds, typically used to masks the odor of medication.
