Canadian woman suspected of transporting 83 pounds of heroin is arrested on Central California highway
A Canadian woman traveling through Central California was arrested after a police dog found $2-million worth of heroin in her pickup truck, police said.
Kathleen Landry, 63, was stopped by a drug interdiction officer and his narcotics-sniffing dog, Cash, on a traffic violation while she was driving her Nissan Titan north on Highway 99 in Modesto, according to Heather Graves, spokeswoman for the Modesto Police Department.
As Cash sniffed around the truck, he detected the smell of drugs.
So the officer got a warrant to search the truck. Inside, he and other drug investigators found 83 pounds of heroin.
Police declined to provide details about where the drugs had been stored or whether Landry was delivering the heroin from Canada.
Landry was arrested on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance for sales and transporting the drugs.
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