Thursday, August 23, 2012

Truck Driver Convicted of Transporting Marijuana


Gila County Attorney Daisy Flores announces that on Tuesday,  49 year old Clifton Epps of Jackson, Mississippi, was found guilty of transporting marijuana for sale, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Epps was a commercial truck driver and his truck crashed while going through the Salt River Canyon on US 60. Department of Public Safety officers located 83 pounds of marijuana that had been removed from the truck and placed on the other side of the concrete barrier wall.

Epps will be sentenced in Globe on September 17 by Judge Robert Duber. He faces a sentence of three to 12 ½  years for transporting marijuana for sale.

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