Seventy-one pint bottles of promethazine were located during a traffic stop in Interstate 10 on Thursday. Courtesy photo

BEAUMONT — A traffic stop led to the discovery of 71-pint bottles of Promethazine, on Thursday afternoon.

Beaumont Police Department’s Criminal Interdiction Unit conducted a traffic stop shortly before 3 p.m. Jan. 5 on Interstate 10 eastbound near mile marker 848.

That’s when they found the Promethazine, whose common street name is “syrup” or lean,” according to a press release from BPD.

The driver, Arrick Harris, 42, of Jackson, Miss. was arrested for possession of a dangerous drug and transported to the Jefferson County Correctional Facility.