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Cocaine, Valued at $1.125 Million, Found in Car Trunk

Three people are in jail after Will County authorities pulled over a car and found the trunk held several bricks of cocaine with a street value of more than $1 million.  The Will County Sheriff's Department says the discovery happened Monday night after deputies pulled over a car they'd spotted swerving on a road in Green Garden Township. 

The deputies asked the driver, 31-year-old Jorge Vargas Moreno of Chicago, and his two passengers to get out of the car. They found bricks of cocaine totaling 20 kilos with the help of a drug-sniffing dog.   

Vargas-Moreno, 35-year-old Bulmaro Castelan-Diaz of Chicago and 22-year-old Tavira-Berrum of LaSalle were booked into jail on charges of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.

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