NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana man will face a judge for carrying cocaine on Amtrak after pleading guilty to prosecutors’ charges.
NOLA.com reports that a 49-year-old New Orleans man was traveling on a one-way ticket from Houston to New Orleans carrying a duffel bag and a pillow. The train was likely the Sunset Limited.
When the man arrived in New Orleans, police who had been searching train records for suspicious activity, asked to search the man’s belongings, but he eventually fled with his pillow. The pillow concealed a 2.85-pound brick containing cocaine.
The man had a prior conviction for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
