DPS Seizes Over $2.7 Million In Heroin On I-40 In Texas Panhandle

A traffic violation turned drug bust in the Texas Panhandle on I-40, east of Amarillo, near Conway, TX.  DPS seized over $2.7 million in heroin, just over 15 pounds, after stopping a vehicle for a traffic violation.  The drugs were allegedly being transported from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City by way of I-40.  That means they came straight through Amarillo and made it about 30 minutes outside the city.

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"At approximately 5:22 p.m., a DPS trooper conducted a traffic stop on a 2005 Ford Five Hundred passenger car traveling eastbound on IH-40, for a traffic violation, near Conway in Carson County.

The driver of the Blazer was identified as Bianca Dinora Mendez, 23, of Cypress, Calif. During the traffic stop, the trooper discovered seven vacuum sealed bundles of heroin in the seats."