GREENFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — A man driving a truck through Hancock County on Saturday morning has been arrested after police found almost $3 million worth of tungsten oxide powder that was being shipped to Japan.
According to a release from Greenfield police, officers were alerted at 6 a.m. that a wanted semi-truck involved in a theft of cargo in Pennsylvania on Thursday was traveling along I-70 westbound, entering Hancock County.
The driver, 31-year-old Deepak Kumar of Fresco, California, is suspected of using fraudulent documents to obtain a load of nearly 40,000 pounds of tungsten oxide powder that was being shipped to Mitsubishi Materials Corporation in Japan, according to police…