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Arazona - A Yavapai County Sheriff's deputy who stopped a semi-tractor trailer Thursday morning made a massive bust when he discovered 2,350 pounds of marijuana, worth over $8 million in the trailer, a sheriff's spokesman said. Peng Law, 44, of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Bing Huang, 45, from San Jose, Calif. were arrested and charged with transportation of marijuana for sale and possession of marijuana for sale, Dwight D'Evelyn, YCSO spokesman, said.
The deputy noticed the truck, which was traveling east on I-40 between Seligman and Ash Fork at about 7 a.m. on Oct. 24, when he saw an equipment violation involving the trailer's splashguards and then watched the semi swerve out of its lane, D'Evelyn said. When he stopped the truck and began to talk with the two men, the deputy "noticed numerous signs of deception and both appeared to be much more nervous than the innocent motoring public," D'Evelyn said.
He added that the two men weren't able to answer basic questions about where they were going, and, when the deputy took a look at documents about the trip and load, the deputy became suspicious that the truck was carrying an illicit load. A second K9 deputy also found "numerous discrepancies" in the driver's documents, and he asked for and received permission to search the tractor and trailer, D'Evelyn said.
Before the deputy opened it, he had his K9 partner sniff the trailer and the dog alerted to the entire length of it, he said. But the deputies didn't need the dogs to smell the marijuana once the doors were opened, D'Evelyn said. The 53-foot trailer held stacks of cardboard boxes full of "high-grade" marijuana, he said, packaged and labeled for distribution in a "sophisticated" manner. The estimated market value of the marijuana is $8.2 million, and D'Evelyn said it was likely destined for the east coast. "That semi was full, front-to-back, with these boxes of marijuana," Sheriff Scott Mascher said. "I don't think I've ever seen that much" at one time.
Mascher noted that the bust happened as part of the deputy's routine K9 drug interdiction patrol. "This is probably the largest seizure for our K9s in history, and possibly for the Sheriff's Office," he said. "This may not have been going into our communities, but we stopped it from going into somebody's neighborhood," Mascher said. Law and Huang were booked into the Camp Verde jail, where they are each being held on $15 million bonds.
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The deputy noticed the truck, which was traveling east on I-40 between Seligman and Ash Fork at about 7 a.m. on Oct. 24, when he saw an equipment violation involving the trailer's splashguards and then watched the semi swerve out of its lane, D'Evelyn said. When he stopped the truck and began to talk with the two men, the deputy "noticed numerous signs of deception and both appeared to be much more nervous than the innocent motoring public," D'Evelyn said.
He added that the two men weren't able to answer basic questions about where they were going, and, when the deputy took a look at documents about the trip and load, the deputy became suspicious that the truck was carrying an illicit load. A second K9 deputy also found "numerous discrepancies" in the driver's documents, and he asked for and received permission to search the tractor and trailer, D'Evelyn said.
Before the deputy opened it, he had his K9 partner sniff the trailer and the dog alerted to the entire length of it, he said. But the deputies didn't need the dogs to smell the marijuana once the doors were opened, D'Evelyn said. The 53-foot trailer held stacks of cardboard boxes full of "high-grade" marijuana, he said, packaged and labeled for distribution in a "sophisticated" manner. The estimated market value of the marijuana is $8.2 million, and D'Evelyn said it was likely destined for the east coast. "That semi was full, front-to-back, with these boxes of marijuana," Sheriff Scott Mascher said. "I don't think I've ever seen that much" at one time.
Mascher noted that the bust happened as part of the deputy's routine K9 drug interdiction patrol. "This is probably the largest seizure for our K9s in history, and possibly for the Sheriff's Office," he said. "This may not have been going into our communities, but we stopped it from going into somebody's neighborhood," Mascher said. Law and Huang were booked into the Camp Verde jail, where they are each being held on $15 million bonds.
News Hawk - The General @ 420 MAGAZINE ®
Source: Dcourier.com
Author: Scott Orr
Contact: Questions? Comments? Use the links below to contact us. - The Prescott Daily Courier - Prescott, Arizona
Website: $8 million pot bust may be YCSO's biggest ever - The Prescott Daily Courier - Prescott, Arizona
