Big coke stash found in truck compartment

NEW YORK, June 17 (UPI) -- New York police say they found a 400-pound stash of cocaine hidden in a truck with a borrowed X-ray machine.

Officers from the city's Drug Enforcement Task Force said they believed a tractor trailer they pulled over in the Bronx contained drugs but had exhausted their search of the rig until they deploying the X-ray machine, which they had obtained from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

The machine revealed the cocaine hidden beneath a steel band in the trailer's floor, authorities said.

"The concealed compartment is extremely elaborate," Narcotics Special Prosecutor Bridget Brennan told the Post. "In my time in this office, we've seen hundreds of concealed compartments. This is in the top five."

Brennan said the truck was probably intended for more drug runs and that it's possible there are more like it on the road.

Three men from New York and one from California have been charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and conspiracy in the case, the newspaper said.