One driver in Milpitas picked the wrong Highway Patrol K9 to drive a little too fast around Thursday night, as the driver was pulled over for speeding, and the dog sniffed out nearly 27 pounds of cocaine in the car.<\/p>\n
A Thursday night incident saw a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer pull over a speeding vehicle on some highway in Milpitas, a routine thing that happens every night. But once that CHP officer\u2019s K9 unit started sniffing around, well, things really went off the rails. \u00a0 <\/p>\n
As KRON4 reports, the officer \u201cobserved indicators of criminal activity\u201d inside the vehicle. And then that dog began to investigate, and promptly located 26.5 pounds of cocaine<\/a> that was hidden within that vehicle. <\/p>\n \u201cThe K9 Officer deployed his canine partner \u2018Rae\u2019 who alerted to the presence of illegal narcotics,\u201d the CHP\u2019s Coastal Division unit said in a Friday morning Facebook post<\/a>. \u201cPersonnel from the San Jose CHP Area assisted with a subsequent search of the vehicle. \u00a0During the search, officers located approximately 12 kilograms of cocaine which was packaged for distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe cocaine has an estimated street value of approximately $2 million dollars,\u201d the CHP added.<\/p>\n The accused driver is not named in any public reports thus far. But obviously, that driver was arrested for possession of cocaine for sales, and other \u201c\u200b\u200bvarious criminal charges,\u201d according to the CHP.<\/p>\n