The Texas Department of Public Safety says a trooper conducting a traffic stop in the Panhandle discovered nine bundles of heroin worth more than $2.7 million in a backpack.
DPS says a trooper pulled the driver over Sunday afternoon on Interstate 40 about 30 miles east of Amarillo for a traffic violation. During the stop, the trooper found the taped bundles of heroin in a backpack in the vehicle's trunk.
The driver, 24-year-old Jessie Beltran of Thermal, California, was arrested for possession of a controlled substance. Beltran was booked into the Carson County jail and remained there Monday on $50,000 bond.
A jail official said their records did not list an attorney for Beltran.
DPS says the drugs were allegedly being transported from Phoenix to Oklahoma City.
