43 kilos of cocaine seized in Texas traffic stop

MARSHALL, Texas (KTAL/KMSS) – Police in Texas seized cocaine amounting to an estimated street value of $4 million on Sunday afternoon. A media rele...

June 2, 2023
10:58 PM

MARSHALL, Texas (KTAL/KMSS) – Police in Texas seized cocaine amounting to an estimated street value of $4 million on Sunday afternoon. A media release from the Marshall Police Department said officers conducted a traffic stop on a semi-truck in the 1500 block of South East End Boulevard in Marshall just after 3:30 p.m. on May 28. According to MPD the driver, identified as 34-year-old Ariel Martinez of Elgin, Illinois, was arrested and booked into the Harrison County Jail. Martinez was allegedly found to be in possession of 39 plastic-wrapped bundles of cocaine weighing 43 kilograms.

Marlo Lacen