Posted on 12/20/2025 1:02:27 PM PST by Red Badger
The Whiteland Police Department is still searching for suspects after 350 pounds of cocaine were discovered in the trailer of a semi truck at a Pilot Travel Center in Whiteland, Indiana last June.
While performing a pre-trip inspection, the driver of the truck noticed the seal had been tampered with and notified the police. When they arrived, they discovered 10 boxes had been added to the back of the truck.
I just want to know how long the truck driver was in the truck stop for no one to see anything suspicious going on.
Upon opening the boxes, the police found dozens of vacuum-sealed bricks of pure cocaine weighing a total of 350 pounds.
The cocaine is estimated to have a street value of $16 million and the seizure is believed to be one of the largest cocaine seizures on record in the state of Indiana.
Whiteland Police Department
After 6 months of storing the narcotic, the police have scheduled to destroy the evidence, but there's still no suspect identified in the case.
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I wonder what was going to happen to the trucker on the other end of the trip?
**I wonder what was going to happen to the trucker on the other end of the trip?**
Good point. With this modern stuff like those apple tags or whatever, the bad guys could have tracked him, and he wouldn’t have known it until they wanted their dope.
When I pulled dry van or refrig van OTR, and had a sealed load, I usually padlocked the trailer doors at truck stops.
He did good pre-trippin his truck. I’ve seen plenty of drivers that didn’t bother.
You know that the perps were within line of sight of that truck and were going to follow it to its destination. The LEO’s have to be looking at security/traffic cameras to net these narcos and hopefully water board them into giving up valuable intel.
CDL drivers are legally allowed to drive 11 hours a day. (Max 14 hour work day). Then they must take a mandatory ten hour break.
Truck stops are noisy places. I’ve slept in a few.
Someone opening a trailer door 60 feet behind you is easily unnoticed to a sleeping trucker.
I just reread your post. Actually lost drovers have refrigerators and some sort of cooking method on the sleeper cab.
My son had a microwave, a hot plate and an air fryer in his Peterbilt.
Truck stop meals are expensive and not healthy.
I did not say he was asleep in the truck. I was speculating that he was in the truck stop doing all the things you normally need to do after driving for 11 hours.
The idiots who made this mistake are most likely dead and buried by now.
Doing an ore-trip makes one suppose it was after his ten hour break or possibly even his 34 hour cycle break after 60 hours of driving.
When my son was OTR he left his pickup truck at a truck stop all week. He’d leave his semi there all weekend.
And as a former dispatcher I have met a lot of guys who drive trucks.
Most of them are going in for a meal and cleanup.
Can’t disagree with you on that. But some at least try.
I spend a lot of time at my employers warehouse. Quite a few drivers do laps of the parking lot while waiting to get loaded up.
I think I saw the local story and it referred to the driver coming back 11 hrs later.
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