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A weigh station inspection initially thought to have resulted in a massive drug bust won’t be prosecuted as trafficking at the state level pending federal testing of what could be legal hemp.

During a check Wednesday night at an Interstate 40 weigh station in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma Corporation Commission regulators pulled a tractor-trailer rig to the back of the lot for further inspection because the truck lacked proper registration.

Eric Helms with the District 27 Drug Task Force said law enforcement got involved when it appeared the truck’s log books had been forged. Two K9 officers alerted on the vehicle, and the task force and Sequoyah County sheriff’s deputies searched the trailer.

Inside were 46 large bundles of product labeled hemp, stacked nearly to the trailer’s roof, totaling more than 15,000 pounds, Helms said. The task force took several samples of the shipment for testing, Helms said.

“We just low-played it, secured it, called the DEA,” Helms said. “Let them test it. Let them do their findings, get it sent off to find out what percentage THC is in it if it’s over the limit.

“It’s all going to be a federal case at that point going back to the farms where the hemp was grown.”