A 37-year-old man is facing a federal narcotics charge after a police K-9 found tens of thousands of fentanyl pills stashed inside of a child’s toy in his car in Fort Lauderdale, prosecutors said.
Fort Lauderdale Police were responding to a call at a Walgreens in the 700 block of West Broward Boulevard on Nov. 15 and noticed an unrelated “suspicious” car parked in the lot, according to a criminal complaint.
Officers met with the driver, Guillermo Higuera German, of Mexico, who told them he did not have a valid driver’s license and gave them car insurance belonging to someone else, the complaint said. Immediately after they questioned Higuera German, a K-9 searched the outside of the car and alerted that illegal drugs were inside.
Multiple boxes and a Sesame Street toy school bus were inside the car. Four bundles of light blue pills were found inside the school bus toy and two more bundles inside another box, the complaint said, totaling 50,000 pills weighing five kilograms. Higuera German was arrested.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents responded to the scene and tested the pills, which were positive for fentanyl. Higuera German allegedly told DEA agents after his arrest that he was going to be paid between $30,000 and $100,000 for delivering the packages, the complaint said.
Higuera German faces one count of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, federal court records show. A judge on Friday denied his request to be released on bond, and his arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 1.
Higuera German was living in the country illegally and had been deported five times previously, federal prosecutors said in a news release Monday. He is subject to removal.