Florentino Hernandez-Padron, 41, is charged with trafficking in marijuana.
Benjamin Lopez-Zapata, 46, is charged with trafficking in marijuana.DALTON, Ga. – Authorities seized more than 500 pounds of marijuana worth nearly $1 million, guns, a BMW and more than $14,000 in cash Monday in a Whitfield County home raid.
Florentino Hernandez-Padron, 41, and Benjamin Lopez-Zapata, 46, were arrested after authorities intercepted a large package of marijuana shipped from Brownsville, Texas, to Ringgold, Ga. Both men are charged with trafficking in marijuana and are being held without bond, authorities said.
Capt. Rick Swiney with the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Department called the action “a very substantial seizure.”
“It’s hard to say how it compares to what we usually take in a year — some years we don’t get as much and some years we get lucky,” Swiney said.
The marijuana would have sold on the street for about $800,000 to $1 million, he said.