Pa.’s biggest pot bust made in Lebanon County
By CHRIS SHOLLY / Staff Writer Lebanon Daily News
Updated: 02/02/2010 02:47:28 PM EST
HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania State Police at Harrisburg arrested two Florida men in Lebanon County after they were found to be hauling between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds of marijuana in the back of their tractor-trailer.
Police called it the largest seizure of marijuana in recent memory in Pennsylvania.
At a news conference in the Harrisburg Troop H barracks on Monday, Trooper Tom Pinkerton said police arrested Stanley Narcisse, 35, of 213 Doe Run Road, Winter Garden, Fla., and Eric P. Emmanuel, 34, of 9820 Sheridan St., Apt. 211, Pembroke Pines, Fla., on Sunday afternoon. Both men were arraigned before District Judge Michael Smith of Cleona and are incarcerated in the Lebanon County prison. Bail was set at $1 million for each.
State police Maj. Huascar Rivera said the arrest happened during a commercial-vehicle enforcement detail assigned to northbound I-81 at the Grantville weigh station in East Hanover Township, Dauphin County.
Stanley Narcisse
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The marijuana was packaged in six large wooden crates, four feet by four feet by seven feet high at the front of the trailer, he said. The marijuana was in sealed plastic bundles.
Rivera said the two men did not try to evade police after they were stopped. No weapons were found on the truck.
“They cooperated with our questions, and eventually, after the trooper determined there was more to this than a normal vehicle stop, they consented to a search of the vehicle,” he said.
Troopers used a canine detection unit, which found the drugs, he added.
Eric P. Emmanuel
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Rivera said troopers are seeing an increase in drug traffic along the highway, whether by personal vehicle or tractor-trailers, “but we’ve not seen a seizure of marijuana on this scale.”
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