Overview
- A trooper with the Indiana State Police Criminal Interdiction Unit stopped a commercial truck on I-70 and ordered the vehicle impounded after noting the driver was operating below industry standards on Sunday.
- Officers found at least five duffel bags inside the impounded trailer containing about 277 pounds of cocaine, which state police estimate has a street value of roughly $3.8 million.
- The driver was identified as Harpeet Singh of Greenwood, Indiana, and he was taken into custody and held at the Putnam County Jail while the investigation continues.
- Criminal interdiction teams use safety and compliance inspections to create lawful grounds for searches and impounds, a tactic that often reveals large shipments concealed in commercial freight.
- Authorities say the trailer and vehicle remain impounded and that investigators will determine charges and whether the case will prompt wider state or federal probes into trafficking routes.