VAN BUREN -- Arkansas State Police confiscated of more than 850 pounds of illegal marijuana and nearly $200,000 in cash and made two arrests in traffic stops along Interstate 40 during the first week of December.

At around 12:15 p.m. on Dec. 5 a trooper stopped a 2016 tractor-trailer eastbound near the 6-mile marker in Crawford County for a traffic violation. A search of the trailer revealed 12 large cardboard boxes and five large trash bags containing high-grade illicit marijuana with a total weight of 724 pounds, according to a Thursday news release from the Arkansas State Police.

Troopers arrested the driver, Zaida Sherif Juhar, 35, of Atlanta, Ga., who was transported to the Crawford County Detention Center and booked on felony charges of trafficking a controlled substance. Juhar tol

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