On a slow news day, we follow two California women whose travel through Missouri was interrupted. This Associated Press article is presented in its entirety as posted by the Kansas City Star. The original headline reads: “Search of car turns up gift-wrapped marijuana”
JOPLIN, Mo. — Somebody won’t be getting the Christmas presents that Missouri troopers seized from a car they stopped for speeding on Interstate 44 near Joplin this week.
The Highway Patrol says troopers found about 20 pounds of marijuana in the car — some of it in luggage, and some in boxes wrapped as Christmas gifts.
Two California women in the eastbound car gave troopers permission to search the vehicle. Both were charged Tuesday with one marijuana-related count and released on $1,000 bond.
The Union of Grass Valley picked up the story after learning one of the women arrested lived in Nevada City, the other being from Santa Maria. As the Union reports here, narcotics task force members went to the woman’s residence and allegedly found an indoor marijuana garden with 20 plants, about 40 pounds of processed marijuana in one-pound bags packaged for sale, 18 Rubbermaid totes containing 30 to 40 pounds of marijuana bud on the stem … and Christmas wrapping paper that matched that found on the “gifts” seized in Missouri.
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