AMARILLO — Texas Department of Public Safety troopers seized 102 pounds of marijuana Wednesday, April 3, during an Interstate 40 traffic stop in Carson County, Trooper Gabriel Medrano said.
About 2:44 p.m., a trooper stopped a 2000 Infiniti passenger car headed east on Interstate 40 near Conway for a traffic violation, Medrano said. During the stop, the trooper searched the car and found 87 bundles of marijuana in the trunk.
Juvenal Mendoza-Barragan, 56, of Albuquerque, N.M., was arrested and charged with second-degree felony possession of marijuana, Medrano said.