Trucking Company Linked to 200 Pounds of Cocaine

[Staff]

Federal agents say a Brownsville man bought a trucking company with drug money and used the business to carry drugs across state lines.

Oscar Oropeza and his wife Paulina are in custody. They were arrested in Alabama. Authorities caught Oropeza driving a truck that carried about 200 pounds of cocaine.

Federal agents have linked those drugs to the Brownsville-based Gold Weight Trucking Company. Sources tell us Oropeza used drug money to pay for the place. Source: Newschannel5.tv

[cassiem0221]

This is just crazy. Why do people insist on doing stuff like this? It just turns my stomach to know that we live in a society where people will do things like this!

[sandmike123]

Wow 200 pounds.... Damn... that will be,like life in prison...

[Aleck]

Got to fund a war on a product in demand. No demand no supply.
Trucks are still the best way to move n-e thing.

[hurgoll]

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Originally Posted by Staff Federal agents say a Brownsville man bought a trucking company with drug money and used the business to carry drugs across state lines. Oscar Oropeza and his wife Paulina are in custody. They were arrested in Alabama. Authorities caught Oropeza driving a truck that carried about 200 pounds of cocaine. Federal agents have linked those drugs to the Brownsville-based Gold Weight Trucking Company. Sources tell us Oropeza used drug money to pay for the place. Source: Newschannel5.tv

There are so many way to mis-use trucking, but that also applies to a lot of other jobs. We just plain need better border control and more crack downs on drug labs.