A Laredo man is facing charges after New Braunfels police stumbled upon a hefty stash of green during a routine traffic stop—360 pounds of marijuana, to be precise. According to KENS5, police officers pulled over a silver Chevy Silverado on Creekside Way at the witching hour of 3 a.m. Friday, when their K-9 officer, Sophie, hit on something suspicious inside the vehicle.
Following Sophie's alert, cops searched the truck and hit the jackpot—bags upon bags of marijuana, all told weighing in at 360 pounds, the authorities said, all occurred as the New Braunfels sprawl slept unsuspectingly. The man behind the wheel, 39-year-old Manuel Roy Martinez Jr., was promptly arrested and hauled off to Comal County Jail.
Martinez has been slapped with charges related to the sizable quantity of pot uncovered in his possession. Herald-Zeitung notes that police initiated the traffic stop around 3:00 a.m. Thursday, in the 100 block of Creekside Way, according to a news release from the New Braunfels Police Department.
No further details have been released about the circumstances leading to the stop or whether Martinez might have been traveling solo or as part of a larger operation, police currently are holding him at the county lockup.
