An Oak Lawn man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for hauling 340 pounds of marijuana over Interstate 80 in Nebraska.
Charles McMillin, 53, was stopped for speeding near Lincoln, Neb., in January 2008. The state trooper who stopped him smelled marijuana coming from the car. A search turned up the drugs and $3,000.
The Nebraska State Patrol contacted Illinois authorities, who searched McMillin’s home and found 111 pounds of marijuana, as well as drug-packaging materials, ledgers and nearly $27,000.
The court ordered all the cash turned over to authorities.
McMillin was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Neb.
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