Border Patrol traffic stop on I-5 yields $1 million worth of cocaine

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Border Patrol traffic stop on I-5 yields $1 million worth of cocaine

Border Patrol agents found about $1.1 million worth of cocaine in an SUV during a traffic stop on Interstate 5 in far North County, agency officials said Monday. Just after 2:35 p.m. Feb. 18, agents pulled over a “suspicious vehicle” on I-5 near the San Clemente Border Patrol Checkpoint, the agency said in a news release. They did not say what it was about the SUV that caught the agents’ attention. A trained drug-sniffing dog was brought to the …