by Joseph Rose, The Oregonian
Thursday October 09, 2008, 12:49 PM
Multnomaah County Sheriff's OfficeMultnomah County deputies found 4,000 ecstacy pills stuffed in an Elmo diaper.
A Multnomah County sheriff's drug unit on Wednesday confiscated nearly 4,000 ecstacy pills wrapped in a Sesame Street diaper during a traffic stop on Interstate 205.
The northbound Chevy Tahoe was pulled over about 2 p.m. just before the Interstate 84 exit. The vehicle had been under surveillance as part of a drug investigation, said sheriff's Deputy Paul McRedmond.
The Tahoe had California plates but the driver, Alonso Ramirez-Sanchez, 21, was from Mexico, McRedmond said.
Ramirez-Sanchez consented to a search of the vehicle. Officers found the haul of ecstacy pills, weighing more than two pounds, wrapped in a disposable diaper in a specially-altered center console compartment, McRedmond said.
Ramirez-Sanchez was booked into the Multnomah County jail on three felony drug charges and for being in the country illegally. Police weren't sure where the pills were headed.
McRedmond said it also wasn't clear why the drugs were wrapped in a diaper, much less one with an image of Sesame Street character Elmo dancing with clouds and pinwheels.
"But it does give a whole new meaning to 'tickle me Elmo,'" he said.
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