K-9 helps uncover nearly 1,300 pounds of cocaine in one of Texas’s largest drug seizures

Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX – This towering display of cocaine weighs nearly thirteen hundred pounds.

The seizure stems from a traffic stop at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning on I-10 East near mile marker 832. Investigators say the driver, 43-year-old Kedra Parker of Florida, committed a traffic violation while driving a 15-passenger van towing a U-Haul trailer. K-9 Rhip, seen here in a BPD photo taken several years ago, alerted to the presence of narcotics…

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