It would take an average pot user about 62 years to consume 100 pounds of marijuana through personal use – so that recently gave local law enforcement a reason to suspect that those possessing that amount might have had what’s called an intent to sell.
The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office says a narcotics investigation led to the seizure of 104 pounds of marijuana and five firearms and the arrests of two Greensboro men.
Sheriff Danny Rogers announced this week that the Guilford County Narcotics Task Force and the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit hs concluded the investigation on Tuesday, Aug. 18, with the execution of a search warrant at 3807 Palladium Drive in Greensboro.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, investigators seized about 104 pounds of marijuana along with five firearms during that search.
Deantonie Lamond Exum-Pippens, 29, and Johnathan Clinton Lewis, 29, were arrested as a result of the investigation.
Each was charged with two counts of felony trafficking marijuana, felony maintaining a dwelling or vehicle for a controlled substance, felony possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance and felony possession with intent to sell or deliver a Schedule VI controlled substance.
Though perfectly legal in some places, under North Carolina law, the evil week is classified as a Schedule VI controlled substance.
Exum-Pippens and Lewis were each given a $25,000 secured bond. Both have since been released from custody, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The Guilford County Narcotics Task Force is a joint operation involving the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office, the Greensboro Police Department, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
The Sheriff’s Office didn’t provide additional details about how the investigation began, how long it had been underway or whether additional arrests are expected in connection with the case.
