Marijuana seizure photo courtesy of Arkansas State Police.
ARKANSAS — State police officers with Arkansas’s Interstate Criminal Patrol division arrested two women in separate traffic stops recently, allegedly finding felonious amounts of marijuana and $10,000 in cash, officials said.
Officials alleged that the women were trafficking illegal narcotics on Interstate 40.
A 50-year-old woman, who claimed to be traveling from Eureka Springs, California to Chattanooga, Tennessee, was arrested last week during a traffic violation stop in Pope County, Arkansas when officers allegedly found trash bags filled with about 120 individually wrapped marijuana bundles weighing about 1 pound each, according to Arkansas State Police.
Over $9,000 in cash was also found in the vehicle, which was driven by Kristi Dortch, who was taken to the Pope County Detention Center on charges of felony possession with the purpose to deliver of a controlled Substance, felony possession of a drug paraphernalia and multiple traffic violations.
And this week, Arkansas Interstate Criminal Patrol officers stopped a rented vehicle for a traffic violation in Lonoke County and allegedly found 115 pounds of marijuana in the car’s trunk and over $1,000.
The driver of that vehicle, Shayla Cooper, 41, of Oklahoma City, said she was going to Atlanta, Georgia. She was booked into the Lonoke County Detention Center on felony charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
