YUKON, Okla. (WTHR) - Police in Oklahoma seized more than a million dollars worth of drugs that were destined for Indiana.
Agents with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics made the drug bust along Interstate 40 in Yukon Monday. They found 130 pounds of crystal meth as well as cocaine valued at an estimated $1.2 million.
“They stopped a vehicle and there were several indicators from the driver and the passenger that led our agents to search the vehicle in a parking lot there in Yukon,” Mark Woodward with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics told KFOR.
Police said the vehicle was initially stopped for improper use of a turn signal.
The drugs - 128 pounds of suspected methamphetamine and a pound of cocaine - was all stuffed inside three duffel bags. Woodward said the drugs were intended for a home in South Bend. Agents sent the stash to agents in northern Indiana, who delivered it to the home and arrested 31-year-old Bradley Burns, who took possession of the drugs in South Bend.
Two others in the house were arrested, as well as the driver and passenger of the vehicle back in Oklahoma. Burns was preliminarily charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, as well as being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
A search of the South Bend home turned up guns, a money counting machine, U.S. currency, receipts for money orders, a heat sealing machine, heat sealing bags, a small quantity of fentanyl, a cutting agent and cell phones, WNDU reported.
The drug shipment was reportedly initiated in California, one of several trips between the West Coast and the Hoosier State.