Splendora’s Criminal Interdiction Unit says a traffic stop in another state turned into a massive drug bust after its officers passed along a tip about a suspicious vehicle. That out-of-state agency pulled the vehicle over and recovered about 361 pounds of suspected methamphetamine, according to the City of Splendora Police Department’s Facebook post. Local commanders credited tight inter-agency coordination and proactive intel work for blocking what they described as a significant shipment headed for other communities.
In a Sunday Facebook update, the City of Splendora Police Department said CIU investigators “identified and relayed information about a vehicle suspected of transporting a large quantity of narcotics” to a neighboring state’s officers, who then made the stop and seizure, according to the City of Splendora Police Department. The post shows photos from the haul and brief comments from Chief Wally Wieghat and Lieutenant Troy Teller thanking partner agencies for stepping in. The department did not identify the other agency involved and did not say whether anyone was arrested…