November 7, 2023 - California Highway Patrol (CHP) officials report on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, at approximately 1:30 a.m., a Coastal Division K9 officer and his K9 partner Rae, made an enforcement stop on a Ford F-150 pickup for a traffic violation on SR-99 near Plainsburg, CA.
After the traffic stop was made, officers identified two subjects in the vehicle and developed reasonable suspicion to deploy K9 Rae. K9 Rae alerted on the vehicle indicating narcotics may be inside.
Officers searched the vehicle and located several large cardboard boxes in the bed of the pickup. Inside the boxes were 117 individually wrapped, 1-pound packages of methamphetamine. After locating the drugs, officers arrested both subjects and they were booked into the Merced County Jail.
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