Man accused of hiding prescription drugs in storage unit.

"A man in Baton Rouge on an expired student visa was arrested Friday in Baton Rouge and accused of illegally possessing thousands of doses of controlled dangerous substances.

Ali Al Khurdi, 44, hid the drugs in a storage unit he was renting at the Safeguard Self-Storage facility on Jefferson Highway, a Louisiana State Police spokesman said in a news release.

Al Khurdi admitted to investigators that he had concealed several thousand dosage units of Lortab, Xanax, and other controlled substances in the storage unit he was renting, Trooper Russell Graham II said in the release.

Al Khurdi then gave investigators consent to search the storage unit where they found more than 5,000 dosage units of Lortab, Xanax and Viagra, Graham said.

Investigators arrested Al Khurdi, 4350 Inniswold Road, and booked him into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on one count each of possession with intent to distribute hydrocodone, Alprazolam, and Viagra.

He is being held without bond and will be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation, Graham said. Al Khurdi came into the United States on a student visa that expired in 1990.

Louisiana State Police Criminal Intelligence Unit and Narcotics Investigators worked in conjunction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agents and Secret Service Special Agents to make the arrest."