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Ohio man arrested after Utah troopers report finding 307 pounds of marijuana
A minor site visitors violation led to a giant drug bust for Utah Freeway Patrol troopers in southern Utah on Monday. (Laura Seitz, Deseret Information)
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CEDAR CITY — A minor site visitors violation led to an enormous drug bust for Utah Freeway Patrol troopers in southern Utah on Monday.
A van with an Ohio license plate was pulled over on I-15 south of Cedar Metropolis for investigation of following a semitruck too intently and distracted driving, based on a police reserving affidavit.
“I requested him what he was transporting and he supplied me paperwork for hemp that seemed to be faux. I requested the motive force for consent to go looking the automobile and he consented. I opened one of many barrels within the again and located that it possessed packages that seemed to be marijuana,” the arresting trooper wrote within the affidavit.
The motive force was arrested and his van seized for a extra thorough search. Investigators discovered roughly 307 kilos of marijuana within the automobile, the affidavit states.
Quinin Anthony Ranford, 32, of Ohio, was booked into the Iron County Jail for investigation of possessing greater than 100 kilos of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police say Ranford was lately arrested for investigation of drug distribution, based on the affidavit, however it affords no particulars on when or the place.