Highway patrol trooper finds 60 pounds of marijuana during traffic stop

A Texas Department of Public Safety highway patrol trooper arrested a 25-year-old woman and a 22-year-old manafter seizing 60 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop Thursday in Kleberg County.

Around 3:30 p.m., a trooper pulled over a 2004 Ford F-150 traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 77 and discovered five bundles of marijuana in a false compartment in the rear seat. The bundles were estimated to be worth more than $360,000, according to a news release.

The man and woman were arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana and booked in the Kleberg County Detention Center Jail.

 

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