Pubdate: Sat, 09 Feb 2002
Source: Daily Press (VA)
Copyright: 2002 The Daily Press
Contact:  http://www.dailypress.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/585
Author: Keith Rushing, Daily Press

HAMPTON POLICE SEIZE 200 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA

HAMPTON -- Police seized about 200 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated 
street value of $200,000, from the home of an Edgemont Drive man Friday, 
after he was arrested on drug charges.

Cpl. Jimmie Wideman, a police spokesman, said police found the large amount 
of marijuana after the man -- Robert Ronald Mayhew, 55 -- was found with 6 
pounds of marijuana in his pickup truck during a traffic stop. Wideman said 
Mayhew was initially stopped for making an improper lane change near Big 
Bethel Road. Mayhew was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to 
distribute.

Officers later obtained a search warrant to search Mayhew's home. They 
found 200 pounds of marijuana throughout the house, with much of it stashed 
in storage bins, Wideman said. Police also seized $19,182 in cash.

Mayhew was charged with an additional count of possession of marijuana with 
intent to distribute.

Wideman said police suspected that Mayhew might have been involved in drug 
dealing before Friday's arrest.

He said detectives were investigating to find out where Mayhew obtained the 
marijuana. He was being held in the city jail Friday night.
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