Moment Brazilian police discover $1.6 MILLION worth of marijuana hidden behind a tractor trailer wall after they pulled over the driver because he looked nervous<br />Federal Highway Police in Planaltina, Brazil intercepted 906 kilos of marijuana<br />The bust was made during a routine inspection of a truck Monday <br />The drugs were split into 1,202 bundles and hidden behind a wall in the trailer<br />Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense reported that the driver told the police he was paid $7,300 to deliver the drugs<br />This is the moment highway cops in Brazil intercepted a marijuana shipment worth $1.6 million.<br /><br />The Federal Highway Police said its officers stopped the driver of a tractor trailer Monday and discovered 906 kilos of the drug concealed behind an aluminum panel. <br /><br />While conducting the routine search of the trailer on a highway in Planaltina, Federal District, the male driver showed signs of nervousness, which immediately tipped off the cops. <br />Operational Unit police officers subsequently deployed a sniffer dog, who detected the drugs hidden behind a makeshift wall.<br /><br />Video of the operation released by the Federal Highway Police showed how the marijuana shipment was split into 1,202 plastic wrapped bundles stacked against the wall.<br />The motorist confessed that he was delivering the drugs from Campo Grande, a city in the west-central state of Mato Grosso do Sul, to the northeastern state of Sergipe, located off the Atlantic Ocean.<br /><br />According to Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense, the man said the drug traffickers paid him $6,800 to drive the truck and an additional $500 to abandon the trailer box.<br /><br />The truck driver and the confiscated narcotics were placed under custody of the 16th Civil Police Station in Planaltina.<br /><br />Monday's drug bust was the second significant operation in three days for the Federal Highway Police.<br /><br />A team assigned to the Operational Unit unearthed 50 kilos of cocaine worth $2 million that was being ferried by a flatbed truck on a highway in the southern industrial city of São Leopoldo last Friday.<br /><br />The police detained the truck's 33-year-old driver and his 38-year-old assistant after they were caught snorting cocaine in the cab of the truck.<br />
