Two Meigs County, Tennessee, men are behind bars in Cherokee County, North Carolina, on drug trafficking charges after the discovery of almost half a ton of marijuana in a U-Haul following an assault call at a casino Thursday morning.
Cherokee Indian Police Department officers seized more than 900 pounds of suspected marijuana after a domestic violence call outside of Harrah’s Valley River Casino and Hotel on Casino Parkway in Murphy, North Carolina, according to a news release from the department issued Thursday. Police put the street value of the marijuana at $3 million.
Police photos of the seizure show dozens of packages of the suspected drug piled high at the police office.
Brandon Thomas Jones, 27, of Ten Mile, Tennessee, was charged with assault on a female, related to the initial call, and trafficking in marijuana, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia, the release states. Jones is being held without bond on the assault charge and on a $200,000 secure bond on the other charges.
Daniel Jerry Wiggins, 28, also of Ten Mile, was charged in connection with the load of suspected pot with trafficking in marijuana, according to Cherokee County Jail records. The release states Wiggins was also charged with displaying a fictitious license plate. Wiggins is being held on a $200,000 secure bond.