{"id":194229,"date":"2026-03-07T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194229\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:36:07","slug":"dps-seizes-nearly-2000-pounds-of-dallas-bound-meth-during-south-texas-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194229\/","title":{"rendered":"DPS seizes nearly 2,000 pounds of Dallas-bound meth during South Texas traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2,000 pounds of Dallas\u2011bound methamphetamine were seized during a South Texas traffic stop, where Department of Public Safety troopers found the drugs hidden in a semi\u2011trailer&#8217;s false floor, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, Diego Mendez, 32, of Alton, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance over 400 grams, a first\u2011degree felony. He was booked into the Live Oak County Jail, according to DPS.<\/p>\n<p>The stop, part of Operation Lone Star, happened at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday on US 281 near George West.<\/p>\n<p>A Live Oak County Sheriff&#8217;s Office K\u20119 alerted to the trailer of the blue 2020 Kenworth truck tractor semi\u2011trailer, prompting a deeper search.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers and DPS Criminal Investigations Division agents found 479 black tape\u2011wrapped bundles weighing 1,980 pounds, with an estimated street value of $3.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs were hidden in a false floor compartment of the commercial semi\u2011trailer, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, DPS said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 2,000 pounds of Dallas\u2011bound methamphetamine were seized during a South Texas traffic stop, where Department of Public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,430,27,2785],"class_list":{"0":"post-194229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-north-texas","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-dps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}