Thirty-six pounds of marijuana are seized

By News Staff on Thursday, June 16, 2022
  • Pictured are the 36 bags of marijuana with an estimated street value of over $100 thousand that were seized by the Ville Platte City Marshal’s Office following a traffic stop on I-49 at the Whiteville exit. The individuals Edwin Pena, 30, of Houston, Texas, and Cristian Diaz, 237, of Baton Rouge were arrested and booked into the Evangeline Parish Jail on charges of manufacture/ distribution of CDS I, possession of CDS IV with intent to distribute, and possession of schedule IV. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
    Pictured are the 36 bags of marijuana with an estimated street value of over $100 thousand that were seized by the Ville Platte City Marshal’s Office following a traffic stop on I-49 at the Whiteville exit. The individuals Edwin Pena, 30, of Houston, Texas, and Cristian Diaz, 237, of Baton Rouge were arrested and booked into the Evangeline Parish Jail on charges of manufacture/ distribution of CDS I, possession of CDS IV with intent to distribute, and possession of schedule IV. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

    By: TONY MARKS Editor A traffic stop on I-49 resulted in a pair of individuals being booked into the parish jail on drug charges and 36 pounds of marijuana being seized. Deputies with the Ville Platte City Marshal’s Office were working traffic detail on the interstate near the Whiteville exit (Exit 40) when they observed a vehicle travelling 86 miles per hour in a 75 mile per hour zone. A tra…