A California man was arrested before he could board a flight to London after 36 pounds of marijuana were found in his luggage at Miami International Airport, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Jeremiah King Salas, 23, was arrested Tuesday at MIA on a cannabis trafficking charge, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n
According to the report, U.S. Customs and Border Protection were inspecting luggage leaving MIA due to the “high trend of narcotics being smuggled outbound from USA” when they found multiple vacuum-sealed bags inside some Samsonite luggage registered to Salas.<\/p>\n
The bags contained a green leafy substance that later tested positive for marijuana weighing a total of 16.48 kilograms or just over 36 pounds, the report said.<\/p>\n
Salas, of Perris in Southern California, was stopped before he could board a flight to London and arrested, the report said.<\/p>\n
The incident is just the latest of\u00a0several recent drug trafficking arrests at MIA<\/a>\u00a0that includes an\u00a0arrest last month of a woman from California<\/a>\u00a0and of a woman\u00a0traveling to the Dominican Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n