Brooklyn Center man charged with trafficking marijuana hidden in produce
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A Brooklyn Center man has been charged in a scheme to traffic marijuana that was hidden in grocery produce.
Steven Lee Yang, 26, faces charges for first-degree sale and first-degree possession of marijuana.
Minneapolis police were called to a warehouse in the city's Seward neighborhood on Jan. 1 after employees found a large amount of marijuana hidden in a produce shipment from California.
Yang's name was listed on the address of the shipment. He was arrested when he went to the warehouse to pick it up, according to the criminal complaint.
Investigators said the marijuana was separated into 260 one-pound packages. Law enforcement agents put the street value of the marijuana between $910,000 and $1.5 million.
Yang is in custody at the Hennepin County jail on $75,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday afternoon.
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