{"id":223737,"date":"2026-03-27T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/223737\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:30:07","slug":"20-pounds-of-cocaine-found-hidden-in-vehicle-during-texas-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/223737\/","title":{"rendered":"20 pounds of cocaine found hidden in vehicle during Texas traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dps-cocaine-bust.jpg\" alt=\"The Texas Department of Public Safety says these package of cocaine were found inside a vehicle during a traffic stop March 23, 2026, near Panhandle, Texas. (Texas DPS)\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">The Texas Department of Public Safety says these package of cocaine were found inside a vehicle during a traffic stop March 23, 2026, near Panhandle, Texas. (Texas DPS) (FOX Local)<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">PANHANDLE, Texas &#8211; Several packages of cocaine were discovered inside a vehicle during a traffic stop earlier this week outside Amarillo, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Troopers seized 20 pounds of the drug Monday night after stopping a truck hauling cars on Interstate 40 near Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">According to DPS, troopers became suspicious of one of the transported vehicles after inspecting the driver\u2019s paperwork. A search revealed the cocaine packed inside a hidden compartment in the vehicle\u2019s dashboard.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Authorities said it appears the drugs were being transported from California to North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">An investigation is underway. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article The Texas Department of Public Safety says these package of cocaine were found inside a vehicle during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1046,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-223737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223737","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=223737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}