POT BUST ONE OF LARGEST EVER IN COUNTY:

Raid In Bald Knob Yields 100 Pounds

A drug raid in Bald Knob led to one of the largest police seizures of
marijuana in White County history Wednesday with police confiscating
nearly100 pounds of the illegal drug after it was delivered by a private
courier to a residence in Bald Knob.

Three Hispanic males were arrested in the joint raid conducted by the Bald
Knob Police and the White County Sheriff's Department.

The Bald Knob Police had been watching the suspects for a year in an
attempt to build a case against several suspects they believed were running
a drug trafficking operation, Bald Knob Chief of Police Larry Landis said.

Landis received a call from officials in McAllen, Texas, earlier this week
alerting Landis that a package suspected of containing illicit drugs was
enroute to a Bald Knob address via a private courier.

The package had been marked as possibly containing illicit drugs by a K9
unit in McAllen, Landis said.

Wednesday, Branden Wilson, K9 officer for the Bald Knob Police, met the
package in Little Rock and followed the courier to Bald Knob, Landis said.