ORLANDO, Fla. — A Jacksonville man is in the Orange County jail, accused of flying in to Orlando International Airport with nearly 50 pounds of marijuana hidden in his luggage.
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The investigation started early on the morning of Jan. 3 with the arrival of a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles.
According to the Orlando Police Department, officers with their airport unit deployed a drug detection dog to conduct a “sniff” of the luggage from the flight.
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The officers noted that Los Angeles is a known “source city” for drug trafficking.
According to an incident report, the dogs gave a positive alert to the presence of the smell of illegal drugs coming from two separate suitcases with the same name on them.
The officers relayed a description of the suitcases to other plain-clothes officers who were stationed at baggage claim for the flight
They watched as an unidentified man removed the bags from the luggage carousel and handed them to a second man, later identified as 31-year-old Jacque Jordan.
Officers stopped Jordan with the suitcases as he made his way towards the vehicle pick-up area.
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According to police, when asked for consent to search the suitcases, Jordan replied “you can go ahead and search.”
The report says Jordan watched as officers opened the…