Sheriff says California driver had luggage full of marijuana, THC edibles
Sheriff says California driver had luggage full of marijuana, THC edibles
Wise County deputies arrested a man who they say tried to bring almost 200 pounds of marijuana and edibles from Oregon into Texas.
Sheriff Lane Akin said Highway 287 has become known as a corridor for people trying to bring in pot from states where it’s legal. Deputies and canine officers with the Special Enforcement Division patrol the corridor to catch the stuff.
“In those states where it’s been legalized, the quickest way to get to the other side of the country and the southeast part of the country is coming down 287. So it is a corridor, it is a pathway that’s travelled by those who wish to illegally traffic marijuana,” Akin said.
That’s what happened Tuesday afternoon when deputies pulled over John Hardwick, 52, near Alvord for a traffic violation. A canine officer picked up on the scent of marijuana in his van.
Sheriff Akins said the deputies who searched Hardwick’s van found numerous bags of marijuana and THC in gummy form. They were hidden in several large duffel bags and suitcases.
Hardwick, who is from California, told the deputies he was traveling from Oregon to Austin. He’s now facing the possession of marijuana and the possession of a controlled substance.
The sheriff believes the street value of the seizure could be in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Akins said his deputies have been making two to four marijuana busts on Hwy. 287 each month.
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Texas still gets scared of reefer madness
Bruh with 170 pounds of weed u can make way more than tens of thousands
They use their K-9s in Wise County to violate anyone’s refusal for a search. You will submit to a search regardless. The dogs will "alert" on those not carrying anything. They have no respect for the Constitution.
Everybody knows you mail marijuana now. Driving is so 1990’s
I got offered a job driving drugs from Colorado to San Antonio once a week..
Waste of time..
ITS ALL GOOD FOR THEM, IM ALLERGIC TO MARIJUANA GOOD FOR THEM, I DON’T LIKE IT.
High blood pressure and lose your keys lol 😂 not on my watch partner
Boss hog looks like a plantation owner
It is a sad event and waste of all.
So what it’s going to keep being trafficed and it’s going to keep being smoked… It’s going to keep coming until you legalize it… Nobody really cares that you make your busts… Big deal… I think it’s funny your wasting your time busting marijuana when you have crack houses and ice houses all over the state if Texas… Y’all are lame 3 or 4 busts ain’t even a drop in the bucket… Plus someone gonna bond him out…
Oh no they caught a guy with 200lbs of legally purchased weed stuff!! Those drugs might have killed 0 to 0 people, so its lucky they caught it! Cant have people being happy and getting the munchies. We need more opiate OD’s and DUI’s killing innocent families!
Wow all this time effort and money spent when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel … Another 10 yrs and def won’t be be any of this
Just legalize it already.
Moral of the story don’t use 287 pigs are stationed there ready to thieve
Legalize everything and let natural selection take its course. 🤷🏻♂️
This is an awesome vid!
This is just sad. When is Texas going to catch up with times.
Yall pigs got nothing better to do
It’s just weed legalize it and ur done
It’s da debeil! That was a pretty stupid move though.
This dude was Boutta bless the whole block🤣😩
Millions of young children were saved that day……………..