Police Announce Large Marijuana Seizure

Columbus police have arrested three men on charges of selling marijuana.Police say they seized 33-hundred pounds of the drug from the inside of a tractor-trailer parked on Lone Eagle Street earlier this month. The seizure is valued at over 6 million dollars, a tiny fraction of what is available on the streets today. It was smuggled into Columbus from Mexico, mixed in with a shipment of watermelons.

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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.