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Marijuana found in melon shipment
Comments 0 | Recommend 0OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Officials at an Interstate 75 weigh station
in Marion County reported finding more than 800 pounds of marijuana
hidden in a load of cantaloupes being hauled by a semitrailer.
Department of Transportation officials arrested and charged the
driver, 31-year-old Richard Garfield Coulton, with marijuana
trafficking after Thursday's discovery. The Orlando man, who is
originally from Jamaica, was reportedly on his way from Arizona to
Miami.
A judge set Coulton's bail Friday at $50,000.
Coulton told the Ocala Star-Banner that he did not know anything
about the marijuana and that no one had access to the truck.
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