I-5 ARREST NETS HAUL OF DRUGS.Byline: Carol Rock Staff Writer CASTAIC - A speeding motorist stopped Monday in Castaic was arrested after California Highway Patrol officers found a wide range of drugs in his Jeep, a CHP officer said. Mark Moses, 37, was traveling 84 mph when he was stopped for speeding, CHP Officer Wendy Hahn said. He was en route home to San Francisco when he was stopped on the northbound Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. just north of Hasley Canyon Road. The officer detected a strong odor of marijuana emanating from Moses' 1998 Jeep Cherokee and searched the vehicle, Hahn said. Officers seized 18.8 ounces of marijuana and 5.4 ounces of hashish hashish (hăsh`ēsh, –ĭsh), resin extracted from the flower clusters and top leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, and C. indica. , as well as 250 tablets of Viagra, which treats impotency in men; 1,000 tablets of Diazepam diazepam /di·az·e·pam/ (di-az´e-pam) a benzodiazepine used as an antianxiety agent, sedative, antipanic agent, antitremor agent, skeletal muscle relaxant, anticonvulsant, and in the management of alcohol withdrawal symptoms. (a generic form of the tranquilizer tranquilizer, drug whose action calms the central nervous system, decreasing emotional agitation without impairing alertness. Tranquilizing drugs differ from hypnotic drugs such as barbiturates in that they do not act on the brain's cortical areas but rather on its Valium) and 1,000 tablets of an unknown substance, along with drug paraphernalia, Hahn said. Moses, who was carrying an identification card as a member of the Oakland Cannabis Buyer's Cooperative, was arrested on suspicion of transportation of drugs for sale; he was booked into Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , Hahn said. Carol Rock, (661) 257-5252 carol.rock(at)dailynews.com |
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