TEMECULA – Border Patrol agents have found cocaine with a street value of more than $1 million concealed in a gas tank compartment of a Mercedes-Benz stopped at a Temecula immigration checkpoint.

San Diego border patrol officials say in a news release an agent stopped the car driven by a Mexican citizen, who was legally traveling in the country.

Officials say after they questioned the driver Tuesday, a Border Patrol K-9 unit conducted an inspection and found 11 plastic, vacuum sealed bundles of cocaine in the compartment.