Traffic stop nets 100 pounds of pot

A Wednesday afternoon traffic stop in Clayton County resulted in the confiscation of more than 100 pounds of marijuana.

About 5 p.m., a Clayton police officer stopped a Ford van for making an improper lane change on Mt. Zion Road near Morrow, Clayton police Lt. Rebecca Brown said.

“As the officer approached the driver side window, he observed that the driver was extremely nervous and that there was a strong smell coming from the vehicle that he identified as possibly being marijuana,” Brown said.

She said that when officers searched the van, they found 100 pounds of suspected marijuana with a street value of about a half-million dollars.

The van driver, 48-year-old Rowan Jeffers, was arrested on drug trafficking charges, and when police later executed a search warrant at his residence on New Haven Drive in Jonesboro, they found another seven pounds of marijuana in the garage.

The owners of the New Haven Drive home, Randy Felix, 37, and Sheralyn Felix, 42, were also arrested on drug trafficking charges, Brown said.