In the border city of Laredo, Texas, what started as a regular traffic stop by local police turned into a criminal investigation as federal officials found thousands of high-caliber bullets inside a vehicle that were headed to Mexico to supply a drug cartel.
A complaint filed on Feb. 7 before the Southern District of Texas says Laredo police officers pulled over a Toyota pickup truck with two passengers near the intersection of U.S. Highway 83 and La Pita Mangana Road. They began asking questions after running a background check on the driver's name and found out that Julio Cesar Hernandez had a "lengthy criminal history" in Webb County.
