Big Boy Drug Bust In TAMPA, Fla. — This Is how the story goes when you in the dope game a traffic stop ended up turning into a big drug bust for Florida Highway Patrol. The FHP report said a trooper was driving south on I-75 in Hernando County when he saw a Toyota Sienna following the semi-truck a lil too close so the trooper tried to overtake the vehicle. Then the Sienna began to go over the 70- when the trooper got directly behind the car.
According to the incident report, the trooper pulled over the vehicle and noticed the smell of burnt marijuana while approaching the passenger side.
The Trooper said the passenger — identified as Toy Phaphon of Temecula, California, — said she was heading to Tampa from Atlanta for a follow-up appointment after getting a recent surgery.
The report said when asked about the smell of marijuana, the driver —Jenny Khamphouvong of Banning, California — said she smoked marijuana while filling up her rental car with gasoline.
According to the report, the driver denied having more marijuana in the vehicle but admitted to not having a medical marijuana card, so the trooper detained her.
The report also said as the trooper conducted a probable cause search, they found a brown cardboard box in the second row of seats that had several large, vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana.
The trooper discovered a second cardboard box with packing tape. The box was discovered to contain some vacuumed sealed bags of marijuana. . A suitcase Ms. Phaphon identified as belonging to her was sitting on top of the initial discovered box. In the rear cargo area were two large suitcases, one black and one blue. Each suitcase contained additional large vacuumed sealed bags of marijuana.”
The report sat they also found ledgers belonging to Khamphouvong detailing the prices of the suitcases’ contents and multiple airline tickets for both women that suggested “heavy travel to and from California, Georgia, Texas, and Florida.”
When they examined Phaphon’s iPhone, troopers said they saw that the women were actually on their way to the Midtown Barbershop on West Cypress Street in Tampa.
In total, troopers said the women had 61 individual bags of marijuana that weighed 75.92 pounds.
| PHAPHON, TOY W/F- 06/07/1976 HCSO23JBN001607 | 03/31/2023 12:26 | 893.135.1a – MARIJUANA-TRAFFIC [1ct(s)] 893.13.1a2 – HALLUCINOGEN-SELL [1ct(s)] 893.13.6a – MARIJUANA-POSSESS [1ct(s)] 893.1351.2 – DRUGS-TRAFFIC [1ct(s)] 893.13.5b – MARIJUANA-SMUGGL [1ct(s)] 893.147.1 – DRUG EQUIP-POSSESS [1ct(s)] |
| KHAMPHOUVONG, JENNY O/F- 01/28/1984 HCSO23JBN001608 | 03/31/2023 12:32 | 893.135.1a – MARIJUANA-TRAFFIC [1ct(s)] 893.13.1a2 – MARIJUANA-DISTRIB [1ct(s)] 893.13.6a – MARIJUANA-POSSESS [1ct(s)] 893.1351.2 – DRUGS-TRAFFIC [1ct(s)] 893.13.5b – MARIJUANA-SMUGGL [1ct(s)] 893.147.1 – DRUG EQUIP-POSSESS [1ct(s)] |