PLAINFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — Officers in Plainfield say they’ve pulled 190 pounds of drugs off the streets, through a traffic stop that turned into a major bust.
It happened Tuesday on I-70. According to the Plainfield Police Department, Officer TJ Peters spotted a truck breaking traffic laws near the Plainfield exit, and Officer Eric Sugrue helped Peters pull the driver over.
Investigators indicate the driver did several things that the officers considered ‘suspicious’, so the officers brought in the department’s patrol and drug dog, ‘Echo’, to conduct what’s known as a ‘free air sniff’.
From there, “K9 Echo indicated to the presence of a narcotic odor emitting from the rear of the truck,” according to a police news release.
Echo’s reaction led to a search inside the truck, where the officers say they found a 50-gallon tote full of bags of methamphetamine and fentanyl pills.
The total tally: 187 pounds of meth and three pounds of the potent opioid.
