CPSO Cat Team Makes Huge Drug Bust

The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office CAT Team made a big bust of over 100 pounds of Marijuana on I-10.

On Thursday, April 14, at around 9:00 p.m., a detective with the Combined Anti-Drug Task Force (C.A.T. Team) conducted a stop on a car at mile marker 12 traveling east on I-10 for a traffic violation.

After the driver, Kasondra L. Whitlock, 36, 3571 Dyer Park Lane, Marietta, Georgia, began to act suspiciously during the traffic stop, the detective asked for permission from Whitlock to search the car and she refused. A CPSO K-9 named “Mako,” alerted to the odor of narcotics coming from the trunk of the car. After searching the car, the detective located over 100 pounds of marijuana in three large duffle bags in the trunk, with an estimated street value of over $239,000. Detectives also recovered a postal digital shipping scale from the car, and a plastic bag containing over $3,000 in cash.

Whitlock was arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center and charged with possession of sixty pounds but less than two thousand pounds of marijuana; transactions involving proceeds from drug offenses; and drug paraphernalia.

CPSO Sgt. Stuart Henderson is the arresting deputy.

via Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office.

Glad to see this off the streets and great job to the Sheriff's Office and Sgt. Henderson.