Task force finds meth in former Mexican cop's car
GEORGE WEST – A former Mexican police officer, whom officials say was smuggling drugs to Houston when he was intercepted in Live Oak County, is awaiting his appearance before a federal magistrate judge.
Agents from the Kingsville-based South Texas Specialzed Crimes and Narcotics Task Force and personnel from the Live Oak County Sheriff’s Office, George West Police Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection worked together in the arrest of Felix Guadalupe Lizcano-Villa folllowing a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 59 near George West. Lizcano-Villa, whom officials said told officers that he previously served 11 years as a state police officer in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, was driving a rented Kia Forte.
In the trunk of the vehicle, officers found a Rubbermaid cooler filled with beer and ice. However, within the insulation material in the cooler’s walls were six tightly wrapped bundles of methamphetamine, which sheriff’s Investigator Lance Rathke said were concealed with grease and soap. The total weight of the methamphetamine, which is believed to have originated in Mexico, was 24.095 pounds.
On the streets of Houston, task force Senior Special Agent Jason McGee said that quantity of methamphetamine could fetch $163,935.
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