Police find pot in frozen strawberries

The cargo was supposed to be buckets of frozen strawberries, but officers noticed the truck was not refrigerated and was headed to a home.
After the truck pulled into a driveway on the South Side Wednesday night, officers sent police dogs into the back and discovered that 350 pounds of marijuana had been embedded in the strawberries. They took a man in custody and went to his Dolton home, where they found more marijuana and a handgun.
Eventually, officers were led to a South Side warehouse where they found hundreds of buckets of frozen strawberries with marijuana buried inside.
In all, police said they recovered more than 1,000 buckets of strawberries containing more than 2,500 pounds of marijuana destined for gangs in the areas of 80th Street and St. Lawrence Avenue, and 83rd Street and Commercial Avenue.
Officials estimated the street value at $6.8 million.
Martin Rosas, 41, of the 1200 block of East 147th Street in Dolton, was charged with possessing more than 5,000 grams of cannabis.
Police said the department's Bureau of Organized Crime and the Narcotics Division began the investigation after receiving a tip about a group who were involved in drug trafficking on the Southeast Side,