Hitchhiker Arrested After Trooper Finds Nearly 1/2 lb of Marijuana - Interstate 84 near Dodson

News Release from: Oregon State Police
HITCHHIKER ARRESTED AFTER TROOPER FINDS NEARLY 1/2 LB OF MARIJUANA - INTERSTATE 84 NEAR DODSON
Posted: March 6th, 2012 11:03 AM
Photo/sound file: http://www.flashalertnewswire.net/images/news/2012-03/1002/52277/image1566.jpg (Jerod Walker)

A Florida man was arrested Monday afternoon by an Oregon State Police (OSP) trooper after he was found in possession of approximately 1/2 lb of marijuana while hitchhiking along Interstate 84 west of Cascade Locks.

On March 5, 2012 at approximately 12 noon an OSP trooper working overtime enforcement in a highway construction work zone along Interstate 84 contacted a man hitchhiking near milepost 33. During the contact the trooper discovered the man, identified as JEROD LEANOR WALKER, age 32, from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, was in possession of over 7 ounces of marijuana.

WALKER was arrested and lodged in the Multnomah County Jail for felony Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance - Marijuana.

Photograph - Multnomah County Sheriff's Office

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