LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A truck driver who searched the web about the right way to smuggle medication throughout the border faces fees after police arrested him outdoors Las Vegas with greater than 200 kilos of cocaine and heroin, paperwork mentioned.
On Might 9, police patrolling Interstate 15 south of Las Vegas arrested Mark Delarge, 49, of Alberta, Canada, following a site visitors cease.
A detective first stopped Delarge, who was driving a semitruck in Jean, for touring an estimated 75 mph in a 55-mile-per-hour work zone, police mentioned. The detective observed Delarge, who mentioned he was returning to Canada from California, was nervous “because his hands were shaking,” paperwork mentioned.
The detective known as for a narcotics detector canine to look the truck, police mentioned. The canine alerted police to “odors of methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine.” Delarge then admitted there was cocaine within the car,” paperwork mentioned.
“Mark said that as he was traveling from Canada to Los Angeles, he had conducted an internet search for ‘how to smuggle drugs across the border,’” police mentioned. “Mark began to go to different website[s] and eventually contact an individual on Facebook… who then agreed to have Mark pick up cocaine in the Riverside area and transport it back to Canada.”
Contained in the truck, police situated a number of packing containers of cocaine and heroin weighing a mixed 201 kilos, paperwork mentioned.
A Clark County grand jury later voted to indict Delarge on 4 drug-trafficking-related fees, data mentioned. Throughout a grand jury return listening to, Clark County District Court docket Chief Choose Jerry Wiese set bail at $250,000.
Delarge has remained in custody since his preliminary arrest.
He was as a result of enter a proper plea in district courtroom on June 16.
