2024-03-20 Shamrock

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DPS seizes 80 pounds of methamphetamine after stop near Shamrock

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The Texas Department of Public Safety confiscated 80 pounds of methamphetamine after a Highway Patrol Trooper stopped a vehicle in Wheeler County. (Texas DPS)

WHEELER COUNTY, Texas (KVII) — The Texas Department of Public Safety confiscated 80 pounds of methamphetamine after a Highway Patrol Trooper stopped a vehicle in Wheeler County.

On Wednesday, at about 4:18 p.m., a DPS Trooper stopped a 2023 Chrysler Pacifica traveling east on I-40 near Shamrock for a traffic violation.

During the stop, the trooper found multiple plastic-wrapped packages of methamphetamine in the front door panels and underneath the carpet in the rear cargo area.

DPS Special Agents and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agents were contacted to assist in the investigation. DEA Special Agents adopted the case.

The driver, Marcos Moreno-Tirado, 28, of Visalia, Calif., was arrested and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance and booked into the Randall County Jail.

The drugs were allegedly being transported from California to Arkansas.