SAN ANTONIO — A Thursday traffic stop resulted in 25 to 30 kilos of methamphetamine being seized from a south-side home, as well as the arrests of two people, Sheriff Javier Salazar said.
The drugs were estimated to have a street value of $2.5 million, the sheriff said, adding that San Antonio police and Texas troopers pitched in on the effort.
"When law enforcement works together... we’re able to pool resources, personnel, manpower and training and get this much drugs off the street all at one time," Salazar said.
It started when a deputy conducted a traffic stop in the 300 block of Stonewall Avenue around 1:20 p.m. and found two kilos of drugs in the vehicle, officials said. That deputy "developed enough information" to identify a home in the 700 block of Fitch less than a mile away where a search warrant was eventually carried out.
That's when the other kilos of meth were found, Salazar said, sharing details of the discovery from a podium behind the piles of drugs and at least $20,000 in cash that was also seized.
The two suspects have been identified only as a 38-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman, although Salazar said it's believed one of them is a Mexican citizen while the other is a legal U.S. resident. They're expected to face federal charges.
"At this point you can assume with this much drugs present in one place, you can assume gang ties," he said. "But at this point we don’t have enough to say which organization.”
The sheriff added the search was unusual in that while guns are also commonly found at homes where illegal drugs are stashed, no firearms were found at the Fitch Avenue home.