North Carolina’s Harrah’s Valley River Casino Arrest Leads to $3M Worth of Marijuana

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Over 900 pounds of suspected Cannabis sativa was seized on Th by police force at Second Earl of Guilford Carolina’s Harrah’s Valley River Casino. It has an estimated street note value of $3 million, police force revealed.

On Thursday morning, police force responded to a domestic force news report at the tribal gaming property.

Upon arrival, officers from the Cherokee Red Indian Police Department (CIPD) ab initio supercharged Brandon Norman Thomas Jones, 27, of Ten Mile, Tenn. with assault, as intimately as ownership of crank and paraphernalia.

A woman mired inward the house servant force incident so called for a ride. The number one wood picking her upwards arrived in a U-Haul truck. It had an Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) Frederick North Carolinas permit plate.

Police were suspicious of the permit plateful and asked to look the vehicle. During the search, officers discovered syringes, ii firearms, and ganja privileged the U-Haul.

Brandon Norman Thomas Robert Tyre Jones (left) and Book of Daniel Jerry Wiggins, pictured in mugful shots. They were arrested at a Harrah’s casino inwards Second Earl of Guilford Carolina. (Image: Cherokee Native American Police Department)

The hunt led to the stop of Daniel Jerry Wiggins, 28, also of Ten Mile. He was supercharged with trafficking a controlled substance and displaying a fictitious tag. Additional charges are likely, police force said, according to a describe from WTVC, a local TV station.

Limited Smoking Returns to Casino

In other recent intelligence about Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, that gaming property, as wellspring as Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River inwards Murphy, testament soon welcome rear smokers.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ (EBCI) Tribal Council this hebdomad voted inwards favor of an ordinance that permits indoor gambling casino smoking only when in specially-designed enclosed areas. Smoking containments must preclude any flux of smoking and vapour onto the common gaming floor, where smoking will remain prohibited.

EBCI leaders voluntarily suspended indoor smoking inward the outpouring of 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANR) organization estimated inwards May that more than 160 tribal casinos ban indoor smoking. Nearly 1,100 commercial-grade casinos censor indoor smoking, too.