- A large bust for the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office: two seizures that may be related totaling $295,000 in drugs that will never make it to Milwaukee streets.
The sheriff displayed 75 bricks of marijuana during his news conference Monday morning. The drugs totaled 325 pounds.
The drugs were shipped by semi from California using a West Allis trucking company.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested two people who tried to pick this marijuana.
The sheriff says I-94 has been singled out as a main route for trafficking marijuana, cocaine and heroine.
“I know this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to illegal narcotics into the Milwaukee area, but we have to choke it off at the entry point. Once it gets into the neighborhoods it’s more difficult to try to gather up 325 pounds an ounce or pound at a time,” Sheriff David Clarke said.
The sheriff says this is the largest bust seized from the concentrated effort on interstate highway drug trafficking in Milwaukee County.
Drug busts usually result in the seizure of about 40 to 50 pounds of drugs. The latest bust resulted in the seizure of over 300 pounds of marijuana. <!–
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