​A California man was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in federal prison for trying to drive 730 pounds of marijuana through Kansas.

The Topeka Capital-Journal. John McCollum of San Francisco pleaded guilty to transporting marijuana across state lines, according to prosecutors, reports

McCollum was stopped by a Kansas Highway Patrol officer on November 19, 2009 on Interstate 70 in Wabaunsee County. He was driving a Budget rental truck and pulling a trailer containing a Ford F-150 pickup.

McCollum told the patrolman he was on the way from San Francisco to South Carolina, according to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom’s office.



A search of the trailer turned up 730 pounds of marijuana.