YRC Shipment Goes Up in Smoke

April 7, 2011: More than a quarter-million dollars worth of marijuana was smuggled into Charlotte, Gaston County police said.

A drug-sniffing dog was drawn to beams at YRC Shipping Company on Reames Road, police said. Inside the beams, investigators said, they found 266 pounds of marijuana. The drugs were packed so tightly that investigators had to use battering ram to knock them out.

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