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The Florence County Sheriff's Office Criminal Enforcement Unit says it discovered 100 pounds of marijuana with a street value of about $120,000 during a traffic stop.
Twopeople are facing charges of trafficking marijuana: Carl Anthony Dais, Jr., 24, of South Elm Street, Florence, and Alif Kahleem Kiiza, 25, of Harden Street, Columbia.
Deputies assigned to the FCSO Criminal Enforcement Unit initiated a traffic stop Wednesday for a moving violation on a vehicle traveling south on Interstate 95 near the 170mile marker.
Deputies claim they developed reasonable suspicion of criminal activity and conducted a probable cause search of the vehicle.
The search of the vehicle allegedly yielded a total of 120 vacuumed sealed packages of marijuana weighing in excess of