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Wednesday, September 14, 2005


There are millions of cross country trucks on the road right this very second. So why is it that the Department of Public Safety can pull over a truck driver, with surprisingly regularity, search his truck, and find 110 pounds of cocaine?
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers found 50 kilograms of cocaine inside a tractor-trailer during a traffic stop Friday morning along Interstate 40 near Groom.

Troopers stopped a 1997 Freightliner tractor-trailer at 8:45 a.m. Friday on eastbound I-40 about 6 miles west of Groom for a traffic violation, the report said.

After receiving consent to search the vehicle, troopers found the cocaine in two U-Haul boxes located under a bed in the sleeper cab of the tractor-trailer, the report said.
A traffic violation led to "consent to search the vehicle?" Why? And if you knew you had 110 pounds of coke in your truck, why on earth would you ever give consent to search?

This same story shows up once a month in the Amarillo Globe-News, and I just don't understand why.

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