FAYETTE COUNTY NARCOTICS CANINE UNIT SEIZES 8.5 KILOS OF COCAINE
(Fayette County Sheriff's Office)
The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release on Monday announcing the arrested of a Mexican citizen that was caught with a large amount of cocaine.
According to Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek, the Narcotics Canine Unit, Sgt. Randy Thumann and his K-9 partner Kolt, stopped a Toyota truck on I-10 at Mile Marker 664.
The stop occurred on Friday, July 7, at 4pm.
After speaking to the driver, 31-year-old Gil Suarez Ignacio of Mexico, Thumann became suspicious that he might be smuggling illegal narcotics.
Thumann received consent to search the truck, and deployed Kolt to conduct an exterior sweep.
Kolt alerted Thumann to the odor of illegal narcotics on an ice chest in the bed of the truck.
After investigating further, Thumann discovered approximately 8.5 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated street value of $850,000 hidden inside the walls of the ice chest.
Ignacio was arrested and taken the Dan R. Beck Justice Center in La Grange on a felony cocaine possession charge.
