Eddie J. Dorantes, 41, and Oscar F. Chong-Aguirre, 52. Both men are from Las Vegas, Nevada. They are accused of hauling more than 500 pounds of cocaine through the Ozarks.The Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested the men Friday night, after they stopped for a routine truck inspection at the weigh station on Interstate 44 in Newton County."During conversation with the driver and passenger, the commercial vehicle officer became suspicious of criminal activity and requested a trooper and an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration respond to the weigh station," the patrol says in a news release. "The officers were then granted consent to search the tractor-trailer unit. Located in the trailer were 227 kilogram-sized bundles of cocaine concealed within the load of produce."
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