LANE COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - Two men were arrested in Lane County on Tuesday and charged with transporting a massive amount of meth.

Court documents show an Oregon State Police officer with a police dog stopped a pickup truck on Interstate 5 near Cottage Grove as part of an ongoing investigation.

When officers searched the truck, they allegedly found two duffel bags filled with dozens of bags and bindles of a substance that turned out to be meth, weighing about 73 pounds.

The drugs are worth about $50,000 in street value.

Police said they believe the men, identified as 45-year-old Alejandra Diaz-Alcantar and 41-year-old Juan Alberto Alvarado-Gonzalez, were trafficking the drugs from California to Eugene.

The suspects were sent to the Lane County Jail, where they face charges that include

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