Las Vegas Man Arrested in Texas for Carrying 200 Kilos of Pot
Last week Border Patrol agents in Laredo, Texas, arrested a Las Vegas resident for allegedly carrying 200 kilograms of marijuana in his car. The forty-three-year-old was booked at the Webb County jail for drug possession. Reportedly trained drug dogs at the border had detected the drugs.
The Nevada crime of drug trafficking is the most serious controlled substance offense in the state. Drug trafficking is the possession, transportation, manufacture or sale of large quantities of schedule I or II drugs. A typical defense to allegations of the Nevada crime of drug trafficking is that the defendant wasn't aware the drugs were there and that someone else had planted them without their knowledge.
Penalties for the Nevada crime of drug trafficking depend on the drug schedule and the quantity found. For instance trafficking 28 grams or more of a schedule I drug is a category A felony carrying a possible life sentence and $500,000 in fines. But trafficking in the same amount of schedule II drugs is only a category C penalty carrying a maximum five years in prison and $50,000 in fines.
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