{"id":234202,"date":"2026-04-16T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234202\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:55:09","slug":"florida-troopers-seize-more-than-2000-pounds-of-pot-during-traffic-stop-in-sumter-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234202\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida troopers seize more than 2,000 pounds of pot during traffic stop in Sumter County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f2db7c016f5a6e8bfcf76d776d74b1b6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida troopers seize more than 2,000 pounds of pot during traffic stop in Sumter County<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Florida Highway Patrol troopers recently seized more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana in Sumter County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The large discovery, aided by K-9 Lobo, was made in a van traveling on Interstate 75.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 55-year-old man from West Florida was driving the vehicle and is now facing charges related to the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The seizure amounted to approximately one ton of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Florida state law, transporting more than 25 pounds of marijuana is a first-degree felony with a mandatory minimum prison sentence of seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida troopers seize more than 2,000 pounds of pot during traffic stop in Sumter County Florida Highway Patrol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,618,29,7659,3315,35258],"class_list":{"0":"post-234202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-marijuana","13":"tag-sumter-county","14":"tag-west-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}