Conroe News: A traffic stop around 3 p.m. Tuesday yielded around $37,500 in pot hidden inside a car and the arrests of four men on North Loop 336 at Texas 75 East, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.
Deputies Tom Thompson and Scott Martin, working for teh MCSO Special Investigations Unit on criminal interdiction, stopped a 2008 Mercury Milan registered in Missour for a traffic violation, an MCSO release states.
Thompson's K-9 partner, Bianca, alerted on the vehicle, indicating that it could contain illicit drugs. During a search of the car, Thompson and Martin found 34 bundles of marijuana weighing approximately 75 pounds.
"Some of it was concealed in the trunk and some in the passenger area of the driver's side," MCSO Inspector Ike Fluellen said. "It was a real thorough search by the deputies. None of it was in plain sight."
Fluellen didn't know the source of the marijuana.
At around $500 per pound wholesale, the value of the marijuana is about $37,500.
Deputies arrested Oscar Rene Salinas, 18, of Baytown, Texas, Juan Raul Soliz, 28, of Mission, Texas, Antwan Deshey McKnight, 37, of Decatur, Ill., and Breon Cortez Wilson, 31, of Peoria, Ill.
Each is being held on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity and possession of marijuana greater than 50 pounds and less than 2,000 pounds, on bonds totaling $50,000 each.
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