Tip leads police to stash house

November 16, 2011 2:41 PM
By MADELINE BUCKLEY/The Brownsville Herald

A Crime Stoppers tip led police to a home in Southmost Tuesday where agents discovered more than 150 pounds of marijuana, a police report said.

The tip claimed the residence was a stash house, and someone was planning to move a shipment of the drug out of Texas.

Agents surveyed the home, that had bars on the windows and a chain-link fence, on the 4700 block of Young Drive. Marijuana was visible from the door, according to the report.

They searched the home and found the 150 pounds of the narcotic, worth about $35,000 on the street, the report said.

Police arrested the residents of the home, David Cauthen, 54, of Florida, and June Perry, 47, of Kentucky, on a possession charge.

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