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Bloomington Police Seize $1.5M in Cocaine
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) -- Police in Bloomington say they set a record for their department when they seized some $1.5 million in suspected cocaine following a traffic stop.

Officers say they arrested a 39-year-old St. Louis man for possession of about 15 kilograms of the drug as he traveled through Bloomington on his way to St. Louis early Thursday morning.

They told The (Bloomington) Pantagraph that federal drug charges are pending.

Police say that after a patrol officer initiated the traffic stop, a K-9 officer was brought in to assist and a search of the vehicle found a hidden compartment with the suspected cocaine in individual kilogram packages.

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