WESTLAKE, OH — Twenty-seven pounds of weed were found during a Westlake traffic stop on Monday, police said. Two people were arrested for trafficking in marijuana.
Officers stopped a car on I-90, near Crocker Road, at about 9:30 a.m. Police said they stopped the car for an equipment violation, though they didn't specify what that violation was.
After getting pulled over, police said the driver jumped into the backseat and the passenger in the car got behind the wheel. Suspecting criminal behavior, officers investigated and found both people in the car had suspended licenses.
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Officers then searched the pair's car and found a scale, edible marijuana, and drug paraphernalia. There was also a suitcase in the car.
Inside the suitcase was approximately 27 pounds of raw marijuana, police said. The discovery is pictured above.
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Both people in the car, a woman from Rockville, Maryland and a man from Richmond Heights, were arrested and charged with felony trafficking marijuana, police said.
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