Police: Sterling women accused of transporting 16 pounds of pot

STERLING – Two Sterling women with a baby on board were arrested in Nebraska hauling marijuana worth more than $30,000 down Interstate 80, the Dawson County Sheriff’s Department said.

Kenzie Parvin and Summer Miller, both 20, were pulled over on I-80 near Lexington around 8:30 p.m. Saturday for disobeying a stop sign, the department said.

The deputy saw the baby in the back seat and smelled marijuana. A search of the car turned up three garbage bags, several 1-pound vacuum-sealed bags, and a pill bottle full of marijuana – 16 pounds in all, Lt. Tucker Case said Wednesday.

He put the street value at $30,000 to $40,000.

Each is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, which carries up to 2 years in prison in Nebraska, and child abuse, which carries up to 3 years. They have hearings Tuesday.

They were in Dawson County Jail on Wednesday on $50,000 bond apiece, and the baby was in the care of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Case said.

According to her Facebook page, Miller has a 9-month-old son.

Police are trying to find out where the women got the weed. Such arrests are common in that area because of the interstate, Case said.