Police: 143 Pounds Of Ecstasy Seized
About 250,000 Pills Found In State's Biggest Seizure Ever
POSTED: 2:38 pm PST November 12,
2008
UPDATED: 8:06 am PST November 13,
2008
WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- Police announced their largest Ecstasy seizure ever on Wednesday where they found about 143 Pounds of Ecstasy during a traffic stop on Interstate 5.A trooper pulled over a 1996 Ford Thunderbird with Washington state plates for a traffic violation and identified the driver as Pedro Moya Gonzalez, 55, from California at about noon on Saturday, police said.An investigation by a Washington County Sheriff's Office drug K-9 unit discovered an estimated 250,000 tablets of Ecstasy, another name for MDMA, concealed in the car worth approximately $2 million, police said.Gonzalez was arrested on a charge of unlawful possession and distribution of a controlled substance and taken to the Clackamas County Jail.View Photos Of Seized Drugs And Gonzalez
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