TITUS COUNTY \u2014 Mount Pleasant police officers found about 745 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop of U-Haul van on Interstate Highway 30 East. Officer Juan Hernandez\u2019s canine partner VADAR, alerted to the van, and a search revealed the marijuana \u201cbundled and hidden in the back of the van,\u201d Mount Pleasant Police Chief Wayne Isbell said. Wilber Pressley, 40, of Spring and Ralph Ross, 37, of Detroit, Mich., were arrested and charged with possession of between 50 and 2,000 pounds of marijuana. They were being held in the Titus County Jail, each on $75,000 bond, Isbell said. The estimated street value of the seized marijuana is around $525,000, Isbell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TITUS COUNTY \u2014 Mount Pleasant police officers found about 745 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop of U-Haul van on Interstate Highway 30 East. Officer Juan Hernandez\u2019s canine partner VADAR, alerted to the van, and a search revealed the marijuana \u201cbundled and hidden in the back of the van,\u201d Mount Pleasant Police Chief Wayne … Continue reading 745 Pounds of Marijuana Found During Traffic Stop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 05:45:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224633,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224401\/revisions\/224633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}