MEMPHIS, Tenn. –Greater than 1,000 kilos of marijuana, almost 50 kilos of “magic mushroom” edibles and $45,000 had been seized throughout a site visitors cease Monday evening alongside I-40 in Haywood County, authorities say.
A Russian man driving from California was arrested and charged.
The West Tennessee Drug Job Drive mentioned brokers with the thirtieth Judicial District interdiction unit out of Memphis pulled over a sprinter van for the improper show of registration and developed affordable suspicion to deploy a narcotics canine across the car.
Throughout a search of the van, brokers mentioned they discovered over a 1/2 ton of marijuana, 46 kilos of psilocybin mushroom edibles primarily within the type of chocolate bars, and the money drug proceeds. West Tennessee Drug Job Drive Director Johnie Carter mentioned it was one in every of their largest busts to this point.
“Weight-wise, I imagine it’s the most important one we’ve ever had, to my data. I believe we’ve been in enterprise for near 30 years,” mentioned Carter.

Carter mentioned the containers of medication had been all labeled with totally different states, together with Tennessee, and it appeared the motive force left California with the medication and had been making deliveries in the course of the journey.
“The farthest away was New York,” Carter mentioned. “It’s what we name a suicide load. It’s simply sort of within the again in containers behind a van.”
The driving force, recognized as Savinov Kirill, 43, was booked within the Haywood County Jail on expenses of supply of a Schedule I and Schedule VI narcotic.

Carter mentioned Kirill is from Russia and has been in the USA for about eight months.
“These guys did an incredible job. We simply got here off the 85 kilos of fentanyl per week in the past, and so they circled and pulled off one other one. My guys are doing an incredible job,” mentioned Carter.
On March 10, brokers with the West Tennessee Drug Job Drive of the thirtieth Judicial District in Memphis discovered 85 kilos of fentanyl, value thousands and thousands on the road, throughout a site visitors cease alongside I-40 in Haywood County.

In that case, Ernesto Ortiz, 42, and Maria Munoz-Arevalo, 25, from Humble, TX, had been arrested on expenses of delivering a Schedule II managed substance and are being held on a $5 million bond.
Proper now, Kirill is being held with out bond.