Riverside County Sheriff's Department investigators and federal agents seized two tons of methamphetamine this week following a drug investigation in Riverside and Los Angeles counties.
Sheriff's investigators, with the assistance of Homeland Security Investigations and the West Covina Police Department, made the discovery Wednesday in an unincorporated area of Riverside County and West Covina after an investigation into the sale and transportation of methamphetamine , according to a statement from the department.
The investigation, the statement reads in part, led to the seizure of 4,038 pounds of methamphetamine. A photo of the seized drugs showed clear Ziploc bags and pink bags filled with drugs on the floor and stacked in cardboard boxes.
The seizure, however, was not the largest. In Houston, Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, announced last month the discovery of 6½ tons of methamphetamine that smugglers attempted to smuggle into the port of Eagle Pass. The agency said the amount of methamphetamine discovered was “the largest ever found by authorities in a single trafficking attempt at a port of entry and is valued at more than $117 million.”
No further details were provided about the Riverside County investigation and the drug bust, and a sheriff's department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
