ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. — A 30-year-old truck driver from New York was arrested Wednesday at an inspection station in Escambia County with a trafficking amount of fentanyl, according to Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson.<\/p>\n
Joginder Singh of Bellerose, New York, is being held in Escambia County Jail on $50,000 bond.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, an OALE officer flagged the tractor-trailer as it entered Florida and directed it into Station No. 19 for a closer look. A K9 Officer then deployed K9 Mojo for a free-air sniff around the vehicle, and the dog alerted to the presence of narcotics inside the cab.<\/p>\n
Officers searched and found a clear bag containing individually wrapped powder and pressed pills that had no markings and showed no signs of coming from a legitimate source. Field tests confirmed about 25 grams of suspected fentanyl, estimated to be worth about $5,000 on the street, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
“This bust is a direct result of solid teamwork! Officer Soroka’s sharp instincts, K9 Officer Thomas’s expertise, and good boy K9 Mojo all came together to keep dangerous drugs off our streets,” Simpson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. — A 30-year-old truck driver from New York was arrested Wednesday at an inspection station…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-334236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}