ECHO, Summit County \u2014 Two men were arrested on Saturday after a traffic stop revealed they were transporting over 300 pounds of marijuana on Interstate 80 in Echo Canyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A probable cause statement for the incident said a Utah Highway Patrol officer pulled over a white Chevy pickup truck with Iowa plates for expired registration tags. The officer made contact with the two men inside, identified in the statement as 56-year-old Michael Lee Giles and 45-year-old Lee Scott Kalkofen, then \u201cbecame suspicious of criminal activity,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giles, who was driving the truck, consented to having the officer bring his police dog around the car. The dog alerted on the truck, then the officer conducted a probable cause search, the statement said. The officer then found several large duffel bags in the bed of the truck filled with one-pound bags of marijuana<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The officer arrested Giles and Kalkofen, and then continued searching the truck. He found a total of approximately 336 pounds of raw marijuana, as well as \u201cnumerous vacuum-sealed packages containing marijuana edibles and other assorted marijuana products,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police booked Giles and Kalkofen into Summit County Jail on suspicion of marijuana possession over 100 pounds and arranged distribution of controlled substances, both felonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n