A federal judge has sentenced a Minnesota man caught with 5 pounds of methamphetamine and nearly 900 Oxycodone pills on Interstate 80 near Lincoln to 15 years and 8 months in prison.
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515 pounds of marijuana
Steven McElmury, 69, of Cedaredge, Colorado, was caught with 515 pounds of marijuana in the bed of his truck by Lancaster County deputies in January 2016. He was sentenced to 18 months to three years in prison.Â
$235K in cake mix cans
A Lancaster County sheriff's deputy spotted a westbound Chrysler Pacifica following too closely in late January 2018 near mile marker 390, Investigator Jarod Brabec said.Â
The deputy pulled over the Pacifica and smelled marijuana while contacting the driver and passenger, Brabec said.Â
A search of the van, a rental with New York plates, turned up broken, pre-rolled marijuana joints in a Red Bull can, a baggie with amphetamine residue in a sunflower seed bag, and three cake mix cans containing $234,956 in the van's cargo area.
Brabec said the cans were made to look as if they had a factory seal on them.
The driver and passenger, 25-year-old Kevin Conrado of Los Angeles and 34-year-old Vazgen Manjikian of Van Nuys, California, were lodged in Lancaster County jail on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.Â
214 pounds of marijuana
Lancaster County sheriff's deputies seized 214 pounds of marijuana and arrested a driver they say was hauling it across Nebraska in early 2018, according to court documents.
A deputy pulled over an eastbound U-Haul truck driven by 54-year-old James M. Casey of Yuma, Arizona, for speeding on Interstate 80 near the U.S. 77 South interchange, the sheriff's office said in an affidavit for his arrest.
The deputy gave Casey a warning and asked to search his vehicle after developing an unspecified suspicion that "criminal activity was afoot," the affidavit said.
Casey denied the deputy's request, then a police dog indicated it smelled drugs in the truck, according to the sheriff's office. The deputy found the marijuana in 10 boxes and garbage bags in the back of the truck.
Casey was taken to jail and later charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana.Â
Pair accused of hauling 645 pounds of pot on I-80 through Lincoln area
Edward Babb
Two men remained at the Lancaster County jail Thursday, a day after prosecutors charged them in connection with 645 pounds of marijuana found in their rental truck.
Lancaster County deputies find 109 lbs of pot in I-80 traffic stop
A California woman was arrested Friday morning after Lancaster County sheriff's deputies found more 100 pounds of marijuana in her vehicle during a traffic stop.
At about 9:30 a.m., Pakou J. Yang, 37, of Oroville, was pulled over on Interstate 80 about three miles east of the Pleasant Dale interchange for following another vehicle too closely.
I-80 bust turned up $100K, led to 1,830 pounds of drugs, sheriff’s captain says
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says it found $103,194 in suspected drug money and arrested a 25-year-old North Carolina man in a traffic stop on Interstate 80 west of Lincoln shortly before 10 a.m. Friday.
Lincoln drug bust nets an estimated $125K in pills, pot, LSD and mushrooms
Investigators with the Lincoln/Lancaster Narcotics Task Force carried a search warrant into a home on the 2800 block of North Third Street on Friday, and they carried out a lot more.
They found more than 4 pounds of marijuana, nearly 3 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms, 3,604 oxycodone pills, 1,281 Alprazolam pills, 855 hits of LSD, 209 THC syringes, nearly $2,300 in cash and four firearms.
Gustav Rockey
Father and son arrested in cocaine bust, Lincoln police say
A father and son were arrested Thursday by the Lancaster County Narcotics Unit after investigators found 6.8 pounds of cocaine, a pound of marijuana and almost $4,000 in cash at an apartment complex near Capitol Beach.
Russell Rucks Sr.
Russell Rucks Jr.
Police arrested Russell Rucks Sr., 50, and Russell Rucks Jr., 28, on suspicion of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver and money during a drug violation.
