Police: $7M of pot seized in Mississippi

By: Crimesider Staff
Topics: Daily Blotter

$7M of pot seized in Mississippi, say police

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(CBS/AP) BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. - Mississippi Department of Transportation law enforcement officers say a tractor-trailer they stopped this week was hauling about $7 million worth of marijuana.

According to the Sun Herald, the MDOT announced Thursday they stopped the 2005 Peterbuilt tractor and van trailer Tuesday morning at the Interstate 10 inspection station in southern Mississippi. The vehicle was stopped for a routine weight, safety and paperwork check.

Officers then discovered 126 plastic wrapped, 55-pound bundles of marijuana that together weighed about 7,000 pounds.

MDOT officials, along with officers of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics are now investigating where the marijuana came from and where it was going.

Charges against the driver were pending.

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by thewatcherone September 18, 2011 1:37 AM EDT: $1,000 a lb. weed? This is homegrown ditch weed prices, please keep that garbage down south.

The average price of good weed is $900 a QP, or for most it's $30 an eighth. Superweed, THC between 15-25%, is about $70 an eighth, no idea what a lb. of that would cost but you get the idea here. 7,000 lbs of weed that's worth only 7 million is thee worst weed one can find. Why on earth someone would smuggle that anywhere is beyond me.; Reply to this comment


by kansas1946 September 16, 2011 4:41 PM EDT: Does anyone seriously care?; Reply to this comment

by bobbyboobee September 16, 2011 11:11 AM EDT

$7 million dollars for 3 1/2 tons of pot? That's only $62.50 an ounce. I've got to go to Mississippi.

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by you_MAY_be_right September 16, 2011 3:07 PM EDT: Why?

When did pot get above $10.00 an ounce?

Pounds use to cost us any where from $75.00 to $100.00, depending on the quantity.