Traffic stops of interstates can yield huge amount of drugs.
In August, for example, about 79 pounds of heroin were found in a tractor-trailer at the Interstate 78 rest stop in Greenwich Township, New Jersey State Police report.
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This week on Interstate 81 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, state police recovered about 11 pounds of the drug ecstasy, pennline.com reports.
A southbound Honda Odyssey was pulled over about 10 a.m. Wednesday in Silver Spring Township due to the registration being revoked because the insurance was canceled, the news website said.
A vacuum seal box on a rear seat was among “indicators of criminal activity” in the vehicle, pennlive.com said, quoting police.
While driver Arron Berhow, 34, of Florence, Massachusetts, refused a request to search the vehicle, a drug dog named Zigi was brought in and eventually hopped through an open window and indicated there were drugs in a back seat, Pennsylvania State Police told pennlive.com.
Five vacuum-sealed bags with 5 kilos of ecstasy were discovered in a “floor compartment,” the website said.
Berhow and passenger Jesse Bradford Hall, 26, of Stephens City, Virginia, were arraigned before District Judge Richard S. Dougherty of charges of possession with intent to deliver drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia, court records show. They were sent to county jail in lieu of $500,000 bail each. They face preliminary hearings on the charges on Feb. 27.
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