SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A federal grand jury indicted 15 people earlier this month for their roles in a drug trafficking ring to move methamphetamine and fentanyl from San Bernardino, California, to Springfield, Missouri. Four people were indicted earlier this year as part of the same drug ring.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Missouri said law enforcement seized approximately 100 pounds of meth and two pounds of fentanyl pills from a drug car on Jan. 17, 2024.
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According to court documents, the vehicle was on a car hauler traveling cross country from California to Missouri when the hauler was stopped and searched at a truck stop in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. State troopers found the drugs hidden in a subwoofer speaker box in the cargo area of a Dodge Magnum.
The driver of the car hauler was unaware of the drugs and not part of the operation, prosecutors said. DEA agents replaced most of the meth and removed the fentanyl pills before allowing the car hauler to continue to its destination in Springfield as part of a supervised, controlled delivery.