During a traffic stop on Oct. 3, a drug-sniffing dog alerted his handler to narcotics inside of a cooler. A photo of the traffic stop posted by CHP shows a Ford SUV with a Washington license plate that reads: "GOTBEEF." Inside the cooler, authorities found soft drinks, seltzers, bottles of water and multiple packages of raw beef stuffed with 11 pounds of fentanyl, which they valued at $500,000.
A day later in Los Banos, a CHP Central Division canine officer seized 120,000 fentanyl-laced pills, which had an estimated value of $1.2 million, along with two handguns, authorities said. CHP posted a photo of the seizure, with several bags of the blue pills and the guns on the hood of the car. The two suspects, also from Washington, were arrested and face multiple felony charges.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement that the seizures were part of the state's continued effort to get "deadly and illegal drugs off our streets." I am proud of the efforts by our CHP officers here to help keep our community safe and hold drug peddlers accountable.
The state has invested more than $1 billion to crack down on opioid trafficking, the governor's office said, as part of Newsom's "Master Plan for Tackling the Fentanyl and Opioid Crisis." His administration expanded the California National Guard's Counterdrug Task Force by doubling its resources in the battle against drug trafficking.
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