The Spartanburg County Sheriffs Office has arrested two Charlotte men after they found 205 pounds of marijuana in a hidden compartment inside a utility trailer during a traffic stop Thursday night. Deputies received a tip that the vehicle was going to be traveling in the area.

“Our ICE team got a tip that these people were coming into our neighborhoods with this trash,” says Sheriff Chuck Wright.  “We had probable cause to stop them and we did so, and were able to find more than 200 pounds of marijuna and some money.” 

Raudel Cortez Haro and Edgar Quintanilla-Arteaga have been charged with trafficking marijuana greater than 100 pounds.Besides the trailer and drugs, the sheriffs office also seized a Nissan pickup and an Infiniti sedan along with $1100.

A Hilton Head physician was sentenced in federal court late Thursday in Charleston for conspiring to illegally distribute the drug oxycodone. Officials say during 2006 and 2007, 54-year-old Dr. Roger Hershline began writing prescriptions for the powerful pain killer without a legitimate medical purpose to addicts in Hilton head and surrounding areas. Users presented themselves as patients to Dr.  Hershline’s  Hilton Head office, where he wrote the prescriptions for them with little if any physical examination or consideration of medical history or legitimate need. Investigators says witnesses and records in the case reveal that Hershline also would sell his oxycodone prescriptions to the users for cash, or trade them for cocaine and marijuana for his personal use.  Federal agents say during the two-year period Hershline was responsible for the illegal dispensing of thousands of doses of oxycodone. Hershline was Sentenced to 41 months in federal prison.