LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A traffic stop along Interstate 80 a few miles west of the Nebraska capital has led to a drug seizure in North Carolina, authorities said Monday.
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office said a 25-year-old man from Charlotte, North Carolina, was headed west in a pickup truck Friday when he was pulled over for following too closely and driving on the shoulder. A deputy soon developed suspicions that the man was involved in illegal activity, sheriff’s Capt. Ben Houchin said. A search of the truck turned more than $103,000 in suspected drug money and a ledger.
Deputies then contacted law enforcement agencies in the Charlotte area. North Carolina officers soon obtained warrants for the man’s home and storage unit. They reported finding nearly 1,300 pounds of marijuana and THC edibles in the storage unit and more drugs, a handgun and $90,000 in cash at his home, Houchin said.
Nebraska court records don’t show the man’s been formally charged.
