Nearly $1M worth of meth seized in Hill Country, officials say

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Nearly $1M worth of meth seized in Hill Country, officials say
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Kendall County seized 131 pounds of the drug after a traffic stop. Sheriff Al Auxier said it's the county's biggest drug bust in recent memory.

The Kendall County Sheriff's Office says it seized nearly $1 million worth of methamphetamine and arrested a New Mexico man on felony charges following a traffic stop along Interstate 10 . It's the biggest drug bust in Kendall County in recent memory, according to Sheriff Al Auxier . Sheriff's deputies on Sunday pulled over a truck Ranger Creek Road in Boerne for a traffic violation, according to the sheriff's office.

Kendall County commissioners OK budget that gives them big pay increases A search using a drug-sniffing dog found 74 bricks of methamphetamine in the vehicle, according to the sheriff's office. The bricks weighed about 131 pounds, Kendall County sheriff's Lt. Kevin Klaerner said. Klaerner estimated the street value of methamphetamine at roughly $7,000 a pound, putting the total value of the seized drugs at between $900,000 and $1 million.

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