An illegal immigrant truck driver was arrested last month after police recovered nearly $3 million worth of stolen toxic tungsten oxide powder from his semi-truck, a case that is renewing scrutiny of how illegal immigrants keep landing behind the wheel of commercial rigs carrying hazardous cargo across American highways.
Greenfield police received an alert around 6 a.m. on June 27 about cargo stolen out of Pennsylvania and believed to be traveling through Indiana on a nearby interstate. Officers spotted the semi-truck using a Flock camera and stopped Deepak Kumar, 31, a national of India, who was hauling 10 pallets of tungsten oxide powder weighing nearly 40,000 pounds. The chemical is used in armor-piercing ammunition, ceramics, lasers, optical equipment and high-tech windows.
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