The illicit cargo was stashed in boxes inside a tractor-trailer, New Jersey State Police say.
Two cardboard boxes containing 54 pounds of illicit cargo were allegedly found this week in the back of a tractor-trailer as it was inspected off a New Jersey highway.
Inside were vacuum-sealed bags containing $324,000 worth of marijuana, according to New Jersey State Police.
Troopers at the Interstate 78 East weigh station in Greenwich Township searched the commercial truck shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to a state police spokesman and charges filed in state Superior Court in Belvidere.
The driver, 52-year-old Eric T. Shan of Baldwin Park, Calif., is charged with drug possession and intent to distribute. He was sent to the Warren County jail in lieu of $175,000 bail.
Authorities could not immediately say who Shan was working for or what else was in the trailer.
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