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Car with marijuana in trunk crashes into state trooper on I-95
Associated Press ORANGEBURG, S.C. - It might have been one of the easiest drug busts the South Carolina Highway Patrol has ever made. A car with 43 pounds of marijuana in the trunk crashed into a trooper's cruiser this weekend, authorities said. Two patrolmen parked their cars in each lane of northbound Interstate 95 near Santee early Sunday morning after a couple of wrecks snarled traffic, Highway Patrol Capt. Chris Williamson said. A Chevrolet Malibu going about 70 mph hit one of the cruisers, causing minor injuries to the trooper behind the wheel, Williamson said. Officers searching the car found two large duffel bags in the trunk with 43 pounds of marijuana in plastic bags, worth more than $150,000, Orangeburg County deputy Warren Pendry said. They also found a few marijuana cigarettes and cocaine inside the car, Pendry said. The driver, 54-year-old Howard R. Fisher of Daytona Beach Shores, Fla., has been charged with driving under the influence, possession of cocaine and trafficking marijuana, authorities said. Investigators haven't determined where Fisher was taking the marijuana. :285: Idiots so dead. |