Posted on 03/07/2007 9:43:24 PM PST by Cedar
$1 million in marijuana confiscated
By Sean Ingram
Ever wondered what $1 million in marijuana looks like? Another week, another big marijuana bust on Interstate 40 for Troop J of the Arkansas State Police. This one, however, was the troop’s biggest bust of the year — 1,010 pounds of marijuana, according to a report authored by Cpl. George Summerlin. The marijuana — with an estimated street value of a little more than $1 million, according to Sgt. Kyle Drown — was discovered during a 2:40 p.m. Feb. 26 traffic stop conducted by Summerlin at the eastbound 55-mile marker on I-40. It came nearly 10 days after Arkansas State Police confiscated 386 pounds of marijuana (street value $386,000) Feb. 17 on Interstate 40.
According to a report, Summerlin’s traffic stop was initiated on a silver Ford pickup truck for no vehicle license. Summerlin approached the passenger’s side of the truck and asked the driver, Alfonso Guerrero Siqueiros of San Diego, Calif., for his driver’s license and truck bill of sale. The man stated to Summerlin he bought the truck three days earlier, and did not have any registration papers for the trailer.
The passenger, Perla Aboytia Cadena, also of San Diego, gave Summerlin a U.S. Border Crossing identification card. The driver was asked to walk to the back of Summerlin’s patrol car. Summerlin asked why the trailer had Arizona license plate but they were from California. The driver said they were headed to the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee, and was not for sure where they were going, the report indicated.
The man opened the walk-through door and showed Summerlin his four-wheeler and said he was trying to find places to ride it. Summerlin noticed a difference in the depth, inside versus the outside, of the front wall of the trailer, according to his report. The passenger also said they were going to the Smokey Mountains and said her son was 10 years old. After the man agreed again to open his trailer, Cpl. Harry Smith arrived to provide assistance. Siqueiros told Summerlin he was not carrying any illegal narcotics because he had just became a U.S. citizen the week before and “would not do anything like that.”
After given consent to search, Summerlin’s K-9 unit Hana alerted to the presence of illegal drugs in the trailer. Summerlin then drilled a hole in the front wall of the trailer, and the drill bit came out with marijuana on it.
Cpl. Bryan Syfert assisted Summerlin and Smith in taking the vehicle and its occupants to ASP Troop J Headquarters, where the shelving, tool box and upper cabinet of the front of the trailer had to be removed to access the compartment. The total weight of all the marijuana bundles totaled 1,010 lbs., according to the report. The man is currently being incarcareted at the Johnson County Detention Center in Clarksville.
The boy was released to the custody of his mother.
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Copyright 2007 Russellville Newspapers, Inc.
Then it is our job to get rid of them!
I'm trying to hide my carbon footprint.
I remember the old days when your choices were "brown" and "green". Now my dealer throws all these brand names at me: AK-47, Northern Lights, Bubbleberry, etc. I just tell him to give me the good stuff. And kids today must be on some seriously high allowances to afford the stuff.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.....
Now we will see if the arresting officer is himself arrested by the Feds. If the weed came from Mexico, there seems now to be a pretty good chance of that happening. It is a protected international trade.
I want to increase the size of mine before I show it to anyone.
I remember a burn of captured contraband at an incinerator near San Francisco in the summer of 67. It had been announced as to date and location and all the hippies in the West tried to get there for the occasion. The place was surrounded by crowds of freaks trying to get high off the air pollution. Many swore they got stoned from it but I suspect a lot of that was hyperventilation. There was definitely a characteristic aroma in the air for an hour or so. I thought the announcement was stupid but the local pols were trying to get public brownie points for destroying the evil weed.
Did you see the recent video of the teenager giving a hit from his joint to a two and a five year old? That is just what we need, young irresponsible teenagers getting babies high on grass.
Last week, here in Nevada, we had a young foolish adult who was high on grass sentenced to life in prison for driving into a man and a women walking along side a local highway. Killed both of them.
I will stay focused on what you call recreational drugs.
Keep thinking like you do and maybe, just maybe you will die an early death also. At least I hope you do.
Can you feel the love tonight?
So we know that only marijuana from Mexico can be given to tiny children? I guess it's OK to let them smoke grown-in-the-USA tobacco? Sorry. I think child abuse is quite separate from the drug issue.
Way too late for me to die young, by the way, even for a web site that generously calls under forty young.
http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-famous-people-who-died-young
But very kind of you to wish an early death on someone for wanting to end the ridiculous waste that is the War on Drugs.
Yes. It's odd. I used to get the sense that there were more libertarians here. Recently it seems, not so much.
Thanks for the good words.
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