Hillsborough County man arrested after traffic stop leads to cocaine, guns and cash haul

PLANT CITY, Fla. (CBS12) — A traffic stop in Hillsborough County ended in much more than a traffic citation, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

HCSO says that on Wednesday, deputies conducted a traffic stop in Plant City on Lino Moctezuma Rosas, 33. However, during the stop, deputies discovered 9 ounces of cocaine.

Following that, HCSO says that its deputies then received a search warrant for Rosas’s home. There, they found 5 firearms, including an AK platform rifle and a Kel Tec submachine gun, 16.2 pounds of cocaine, 1 pound of methamphetamine, 3 illegal automatic conversion devices (“switches”), and almost $80,000 in cash…

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