Cocaine worth $5M found in produce truck during Johnston County traffic stop
Two people were arrested over the weekend in what Johnston County deputies have called one of the largest drug busts in the department's history.
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The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies on Sunday stopped a tractor-trailer carrying produce on Interstate 95 in Kenly.
After getting permission to search the truck, deputies said they located 50 kilos of cocaine hidden in brown boxes among the produce.
The cocaine had an estimated street value of $5 million, deputies said.
Eugenio Carlos Alfonso, 48, and Julio Cesar Rodriguez, 49, both of Miami, Fla., were charged with multiple counts of cocaine trafficking and were being held at the Johnston County Jail under $750,000 bond.
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