PHOTO VIDEO 3.9 tons of pot discovered in Texas tanker truck

ByAsa Hawks

3.9 tons of marijuana found in tanker truck in Texas

Most Texas marijuana arrest stories we report on involve a musician’s tour bus being stopped in Sierra Blanca, Texas and a drug sniffing dog finding half a roach tucked between sofa cushions, but yesterday the motto “everything is bigger in Texas” played out as a state trooper doing a routine commercial vehicle inspection in San Patricio County discovered 7,816 pounds of pot inside a tanker truck!

The 3.9 tons of weed has an estimated street value of $3.4 million. Of course, those of you who know that a ton of marijuana goes for about $872,000 already knew that.

Paul Anthony Simmons mug shot after arrest for driving tanker truck with 3.9 tons of marijuana pot

The driver of the truck, 45-year-old Paul Anthony Simmons of Robstown (above), is being held on $1 million bond.

No more details about the origins of the shipment or the destination were released, but I’m guessing there is and extremely disappointed long-haired country singer in Austin right about now. I think I’ve now figured out that “milk cow” is a code word for tanker full of weed:

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