EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon State Police pulled over a swerving 2017 Chevy Impala on Interstate 5 near Cottage Grove and discovered more than 100 pounds of marijuana in the driver’s car, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday.
Steven Edward Sinkoff, 58, was pulled over by a trooper at 11:20 a.m. Tuesday. The trooper immediately detected the smell of marijuana coming from the vehicle, the document states, and discovered 108 individually sealed one-pound bags of marijuana in bags in the trunk of the car, according to the complaint. In the back seat, a bag was found containing $40,000 in cash, concealed between sheets of lead, a tactic used by drug traffickers to keep X-ray machines from detecting currency, the complaint states.
Sinkoff is charged with possession with the intent to distribute over 100 pounds of marijuana. He is no longer listed as an inmate of the Lane County Jail.
