Grocery bag full of fentanyl found during stop in Fresno County

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two radical were arrested Monday greeting aft the California Highway Patrol discovered their market container was stashed with implicit $150,000 worthy of fentanyl.

At astir 8:40 a.m., a CHP serviceman was traveling northbound Interstate 5 southbound of El Dorado erstwhile helium noticed a Subaru Legacy marque an unsafe lane change.

After pulling the car over, the serviceman reported noting respective factors that led him to judge the operator and rider were engaging successful transgression activity.

CHP said the operator consented to a search. While searching the car's trunk, the serviceman recovered astir 2 kilograms of fentanyl pulverization (valued astatine $160,000) hidden successful a Sprouts market bag.

Both the operator and rider were arrested and booked into the Fresno County Jail nether suspicion of narcotics for sale, proscription of narcotics for sale, and proscription for merchantability crossed noncontiguous counties.