North Carolina’s Harrah’s Valley River Casino Arrest Leads to $3M Worth of Marijuana

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Over 900 pounds of suspected ganja was seized on Thursday past constabulary at North Carolina’s Harrah’s Valley River Casino. It has an estimated street note value of $3 million, constabulary revealed.

On Thursday morning, law responded to a domesticated force report at the tribal gaming property.

Upon arrival, officers from the Cherokee American Indian Police Department (CIPD) initially supercharged Brandon Norman Thomas Jones, 27, of Ten Mile, Tenn. with assault, as well as ownership of chalk and paraphernalia.

A adult female involved inward the domesticated force incident and then called for a ride. The driver pick her upwards arrived inward a U-Haul truck. It had an Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) Frederick North Carolinas permission plate.

Police were suspicious of the license collection plate and asked to hunting the vehicle. During the search, officers discovered syringes, two firearms, and marihuana within the U-Haul.

Brandon Norman Thomas John Luther Jones (left) and Book of the Prophet Daniel Jerry Wiggins, pictured inwards mugful shots. They were arrested at a Harrah’s gambling casino in Second Earl of Guilford Carolina. (Image: Cherokee Native American Police Department)

The hunt led to the hitch of Book of Daniel Jerry Wiggins, 28, also of Ten Mile. He was charged with trafficking a controlled substance and displaying a fictitious tag. Additional charges are likely, police force said, according to a account from WTVC, a local TV station.

Limited Smoking Returns to Casino

In other recent intelligence about Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, that gaming property, as comfortably as Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River inward Murphy, testament shortly receive rearwards smokers.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ (EBCI) Tribal Council this calendar week voted inward favour of an ordinance that permits indoor cassino smoking only if in specially-designed enclosed areas. Smoking containments must forestall any rate of flow of fume and vapour onto the plebeian gaming floor, where smoking will remain prohibited.

EBCI leaders voluntarily suspended indoor smoking inwards the outflow of 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANR) system estimated inwards May that to a greater extent than 160 tribal casinos banning indoor smoking. Nearly 1,100 commercial message casinos forbidding indoor smoking, too.