Authorities Double Cocaine Bust Total
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SAN DIEGO — The amount of cocaine confiscated by agents at the San Onofre immigration checkpoint Thursday totals 477 pounds, twice as much as original estimates and the largest single seizure of the drug ever in San Diego County, authorities said Friday.
The cocaine, seized from a pickup truck attempting to pass through the Border Patrol station, has a street value of about $58 million, said Lt. Alan Fulmer, a division commander in the San Diego County Narcotics Task Force.
Officials originally believed that the drugs seized at the San Onofre checkpoint Thursday weighed about 220 pounds. But they revised that estimate upward after agents Thursday evening counted the number of brick-sized packages of cocaine in the pickup truck’s bed. Agents said the 217 packages, covered by either plastic or masking tape, weighed slightly more than two pounds each.
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