Georgia Police Bust Couple Allegedly Trafficking $500,000 Cocaine Inside Horse Saddle

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Police in Dekalb County, Ga., arrested a pair of alleged drug traffickers on Tuesday after a man retrieved a package containing a horse saddle filled with 11 pounds of cocaine, MyFoxAtlanta reports.

Authorities said that they began tracking the saddle -- stuffed with cocaine worth $500,000 street value -- when it crossed the U.S.-Mexican border about a month ago, according to FoxNews. They called the mission "Operation Urban Cowboy."

Prior to the bust, police warned store owner Raj Shah that the saddle would be retrieved from his establishment.

When the man arrived to claim the saddle, "I said, 'Here's the package, it's a little heavy I can't carry it, can you carry it,' so he carried it out and he walked out the door and the police took over," Shah said.

"It just looked like a horse saddle and then they opened the layers and they found so many things," Shah added.

Police arrested the man and his companion, charging the pair with drug trafficking.