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A casket minus a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds of marijuana after a traffic stop in Dallas.
William Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic and seat belt violations. Dallas police say Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of marijuana were discovered inside a casket.
Police stopped a van in Mesquite after noticing Crock not wearing a seat belt. A drug-sniffing dog alerted officers to the casket in the van.
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