Gwinnett police officers seized about 100 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop on I-85 Tuesday night.
The incident happened near Flowery Branch Road in unincorporated Buford around 10:30 p.m.
An officer with Gwinnett police’s Highway Interdiction Team saw a blue 2005 Ford 500 driving northbound on I-85. The car’s tag light was out, police said.
The officer stopped the car and tried to talk to the driver, Tyrone Alexander, who was giving “inconsistent statements about where he was coming from and where he was going.”
Alexander, 33, also gave the officer a false driver’s license.
The officer used a K-9 dog to search the car. Police pulled two large, black trash bags from the trunk of the car – each one containing five bricks of marijuana as well as one large plastic bag of marijuana.
Officers arrested Alexander and impounded the car.
Alexander, who is from Greenville, S.C., was charged with trafficking marijuana, providing false documents and driving on a suspended license.
He is being held at the Gwinnett County Jail.
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