TRAFFIC STOP WORTH $40 MILLION DRIVER JAILED; 880 POUNDS OF COCAINE SEIZED.Byline: CAROL ROCK Staff Writer STEVENSON RANCH Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. -- A traffic stop has turned up 880 pounds of what appears to be cocaine -- $40 million worth -- boxed in the back of a pickup truck, a California Highway Patrol official said Friday. CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Officer Mike Blaine stopped a Toyota Tundra on Thursday afternoon on The Old Road near Stevenson Ranch Parkway, noted the nervous driver and the pile of boxes in the back. Blaine, who drives a CHP canine unit, stopped driver Juan Alvaraz, from Tracy in Northern California, because his windows had too dark a tint and he was not wearing his seat belt, according to a CHP report. Alvarez was exceptionally nervous when Blaine was talking with him, officials from the CHP's Los Angeles County Narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. Task Force said. So upon discovering that Alvarez's driver's license was expired, Blaine allowed his canine partner to examine the truck, noting that the dog ``went wild'' when he approached the boxes. ``The driver was stuttering stuttering or stammering, speech disorder marked by hesitation and inability to enunciate consonants without spasmodic repetition. Known technically as dysphemia, it has sometimes been attributed to an underlying personality disorder. and said he didn't speak English,'' said the official, declining to give his name. ``The bricks (believed to be cocaine) were in cardboard boxes in the bed of the truck. He didn't even have a camper shell over them.'' The drugs were taken to a Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . evidence facility. Alvarez, a native of Mexico, was booked on felony narcotics charges and remained in jail Friday. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . carol.rock(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5252 |
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