News (Media Awareness Project) - US TX: Marijuana Is Seized From Beneath Trailer |
| Title: | US TX: Marijuana Is Seized From Beneath Trailer |
| Published On: | 2000-11-30 |
| Source: | Ft. Worth Star-Telegram (TX) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-28 22:48:55 |
MARIJUANA IS SEIZED FROM BENEATH TRAILER
Agents Tracking A Pickup From A Fort Worth House Find 80 Pounds Of The Drug
Eighty pounds of marijuana destined for North Carolina was seized
Wednesday afternoon after authorities stopped a pickup pulling a
cattle trailer on Interstate 20 near Terrell, the Tarrant County
sheriff's spokesman said.
Authorities had tracked the pickup since it left a north Fort Worth
home that drug enforcement agents were watching, Capt. John Dalton
said.
The marijuana was in a hidden compartment under the trailer.
It was the second time in two days that the narcotics unit of the
Sheriff's Department seized large amounts of marijuana. Monday night,
deputies seized 45 pounds of marijuana at a home in the 3600 block of
Kell Street in southwest Fort Worth, Dalton said.
The homeowner, Zaragoza Najera, 44, was arrested on suspicion of
marijuana possession, Dalton said. He was released Wednesday from
Tarrant County Jail after posting bail.
The two cases were not related, Dalton said.
"Both of these busts were the combination of some long hard hours and
very professional work done by the narcotics officers," Dalton said.
Authorities started watching a home Tuesday in the 3300 block of
Springdale Road in north Fort Worth after hearing that "someone was
coming to pick up a large amount of marijuana at that address,"
Dalton said.
Police watched as the suspect drove off in a 1989 Ford Extended Cab
pickup pulling a cattle trailer with six calves.
"We wanted to make sure he had gone to all the places he was going to
pick up the stuff," Dalton said about the decision to stop the truck
near Terrell, about 25 miles east of Dallas.
The driver, a 42-year-old man from North Carolina, was arrested on
suspicion of delivery of marijuana and taken to Tarrant County Jail,
Dalton said.
As soon as officers seized the marijuana, which officials said was
worth about $44,000, they radioed to officers at the house on
Springdale to arrest the home's occupants, Dalton said.
Three men there, ages 17 to 34, were taken to Tarrant County Jail, he said.
Agents Tracking A Pickup From A Fort Worth House Find 80 Pounds Of The Drug
Eighty pounds of marijuana destined for North Carolina was seized
Wednesday afternoon after authorities stopped a pickup pulling a
cattle trailer on Interstate 20 near Terrell, the Tarrant County
sheriff's spokesman said.
Authorities had tracked the pickup since it left a north Fort Worth
home that drug enforcement agents were watching, Capt. John Dalton
said.
The marijuana was in a hidden compartment under the trailer.
It was the second time in two days that the narcotics unit of the
Sheriff's Department seized large amounts of marijuana. Monday night,
deputies seized 45 pounds of marijuana at a home in the 3600 block of
Kell Street in southwest Fort Worth, Dalton said.
The homeowner, Zaragoza Najera, 44, was arrested on suspicion of
marijuana possession, Dalton said. He was released Wednesday from
Tarrant County Jail after posting bail.
The two cases were not related, Dalton said.
"Both of these busts were the combination of some long hard hours and
very professional work done by the narcotics officers," Dalton said.
Authorities started watching a home Tuesday in the 3300 block of
Springdale Road in north Fort Worth after hearing that "someone was
coming to pick up a large amount of marijuana at that address,"
Dalton said.
Police watched as the suspect drove off in a 1989 Ford Extended Cab
pickup pulling a cattle trailer with six calves.
"We wanted to make sure he had gone to all the places he was going to
pick up the stuff," Dalton said about the decision to stop the truck
near Terrell, about 25 miles east of Dallas.
The driver, a 42-year-old man from North Carolina, was arrested on
suspicion of delivery of marijuana and taken to Tarrant County Jail,
Dalton said.
As soon as officers seized the marijuana, which officials said was
worth about $44,000, they radioed to officers at the house on
Springdale to arrest the home's occupants, Dalton said.
Three men there, ages 17 to 34, were taken to Tarrant County Jail, he said.
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