Law enforcement seizes 80 kilos of cocaine, millions in cash in Halifax County
Local and federal law enforcement officers seized 80 kilograms of cocaine and about $2 million in cash early Tuesday in a raid in Halifax County, authorities said.
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Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp described the case in an email as the largest drug and money seizure in the county's history. The cocaine was valued at $2.8 million, he said.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents, deputies from Halifax, Wake, Nash, Orange, Durham and Franklin counties and police officers from Raleigh, Apex and Garner were part of the investigation, which focused on a building in the Aurelian Springs Road area, Tripp said.
Two people were in federal custody, but Tripp didn't identify them.
No other details were available.
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