(JACKSON COUNTY, Ala.) - Narcotics Task Force agents say a pickup truck driver was towing a marijuana greenhouse.
Jeremy Rushmichael Hicks, 38, of Bruceville, Texas, was stopped near the 68 mile marker of Interstate 10 in Mississippi for careless driving and expired tags, according to a task force news release. Inside the camper Hicks was towing, authorities say they found several hydroponic marijuana grow rooms, three live marijuana plants and a small amount of recently harvested marijuana.
Hicks was booked into the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department Adult Detention Center and charged with one count of cultivation of Marijuana. The truck, trailer and more than $1,700 was seized by the Narcotics Task Force.
Authorities say Hicks was also driving with a suspended license and was wanted in Florida for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
