Traffic stop nets 100+ pounds of pot

NEW CASTLE, Ind. (WISH) - A California man was arrested Monday in Henry County after police found more than a hundred pounds of marijuana in the car he was driving.

Henry County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. James Goodwin, a member of the ProActive Criminal Enforcement team, stopped a 2012 Buick LaCrosse at about 10:15 a.m. Monday on eastbound Interstate 70, southeast of New Castle, and his police dog Cain indicated the presence of a controlled substance. Officers then searched the car and found 28 vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana packed into two duffle bags in the car’s trunk. PACE said the drugs have a street value of about $150,000.

The car’s driver, Lennard B. Sherouse, 48, Carson, Calif., was preliminarily charged with dealing in marijuana, a Class C felony. He was being held Monday at the Henry County Jail on $7,500 bond.

Also assisting were several other PACE team members: Nicholas Enstes, Hancock County Sheriff’s Department; David Glover, Richmond Police Department, Christopher Borgmann and his dog Eragon, Greenfield Police Department, and investigators with the Henry County Area Drug Task Force.