Texas resident arrested following cocaine bust in Mississippi

MISSISSIPPI — A Texas man was arrested Wednesday after authorities discovered nearly nine pounds of cocaine during a traffic stop on Interstate 10 in Harrison County, officials said.

According to Harrison County Sheriff Matt Haley, the stop happened shortly after 11 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-10 near mile marker 40 in Biloxi.

A deputy with the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Interdiction Division, along with a U.S. Border Patrol agent, stopped a black Jeep Wagoneer for a traffic violation. Harrison County narcotics investigators later took over the investigation…

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