WOMAN ARRESTED WITH $1 MILLION WORTH OF "HIGH-GRADE" MARIJUANA

Police confiscated $1 million worth of high-quality marijuana from a
Wisconsin woman's van on I-55 during a highway drug detail Monday.

[redacted] who police say has a legal permit to carry
marijuana in California, was arrested after officers found about 83
pounds of marijuana inside five suitcases, according to South Central
Illinois Drug Task Force Sgt. Tod Dowdy.

When state police pulled over [redacted] van,
they smelled marijuana in the vehicle, he said. She allegedly admitted
to having the drug in a small case.

[redacted] who had no criminal record before her arrest Monday, was
taken to the Montgomery County Jail after police searched her van.

[redacted] who has homes in California and Wisconsin, has a medical
marijuana permit to grow 90 cannabis plants in California, authorities
said. However, the permit is no good once she leaves the state.

"The amount of plants that she's allowed to grow would mean in one
year's time she would smoke 125 pounds of cannabis, which is highly
unlikely for any one individual to smoke that much," Dowdy said. "She
was claiming she was transporting this for someone else, but that will
be determined through the investigation."

The confiscated marijuana was a particularly potent strain called "OG
Kush," Dowdy said. Whereas street-level marijuana from Illinois goes
for $100 to $130 per ounce, the California-grown OG Kush is a
higher-quality plant and about eight times more expensive.

"It's that type of hybrid," he said. "There are no stems, no seeds,
just straight bud. We've gotten several pounds before, but this
quality of marijuana was the unusual part of it."