A 20-year-old woman from Arizona was recently arrested on Colorado’s Western Slope after 60 pounds of pills were found inside her car during a traffic stop.
Police believe the pills are counterfeit Oxycontin and probably contain fentanyl. According to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, the estimated 222,360 pills, weighing 59.64 pounds collectively, are worth $2,668,320 on the street.
Leslie Lopez-Rojas and two accomplices were arrested.
The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office did not identify the accomplices and has not stated when the traffic stop happened. But Lopez-Rojas was advised Thursday of several charges filed against her, including importing a schedule II controlled substance into the state, a class 1 drug felony.
A judge set Lopez-Rojas’s bond at $1 million cash.
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In a press release, the sheriff’s office credited its deputies, along with investigators with the Garfield County SPEAR (Special Problem Enforcement and Response) Task Force, with pulling over the car on Interstate 70 near Parachute and discovering the contraband.