The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office posted two new reports, Tuesday. At around 12:40-p.m. Monday, Deputy Brian Miller with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Department conducted a traffic stop on a 2017 Chevy Cruze for excessive speed. The vehicle was stopped on Interstate 80 eastbound, about two-miles south of the exit to Highway 6. While speaking with the occupants of the vehicle, Deputy Miller detected the odor of marijuana coming from within the vehicle. A probable cause search was conducted, during which 143-pounds of marijuana was located. The
driver, 32-year old Moua Tong, of St. Paul., MN., said the drugs were his. He was placed under arrest for narcotic violations and transported to Pottawattamie County
Corrections and booked in on those violations.

Officials said that at around 7:36-a.m. Monday, 33-year old Walter David Mercado, of Omaha, was arrested for OWI/2nd offense, after a Deputy was dispatched to Old Lincoln Highway and Coldwater Avenue a little after 5-a.m.. Monday, for an unknown injury accident. The vehicle, a 2016 KIA Optima, was down in a ditch with its lights on. Mercado was found still in the vehicle, and placed under arrest.

A man from Minnesota was arrested Monday following a traffic stop