POLICE SEIZE MORE THAN A TON OF MARIJUANA AT ILL. TRUCK STOP

TROY, Ill. - Authorities in southern Illinois say three men, one of them
from North Carolina, face drug charges after police found them with more
than a ton of marijuana at a truck stop.

A Troy, Illinois, police officer noticed the men Sunday in the parking lot,
standing near the tractor-trailer and unloading boxes from the trailer.

Police say they later determined the truck held 29-hundred pounds of marijuana.

Investigators contend the men brought the marijuana from Phoenix and were
headed to Michigan.

All three are charged with felony marijuana trafficking.

The North Carolina suspect is identified as 47-year-old Samuel Jumper of
Elon, North Carolina. Police say the other two men are from Phoenix and St.
Louis.