A Los Angeles County trucking business has been named in federal court documents related to the seizure of hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds of pounds of marijuana by authorities.
The company, Star Light Logistics from Diamond Bar, is the registered owner of two semi trucks that were found to each carry more than $300,000 in cash, according to a court filing first reported by Seamus Hughes’ Court Watch.
In one instance on Oct. 5, 2023, a Star Light truck was pulled over in Riverside County, and in the truck, a Riverside County Sheriff’s deputy found three vacuum-sealed bags containing nearly $307,000 in cash.
A narcotics detection K-9 detected “a narcotics odor on the currency,” the filing says.
That came just months after a similar incident on July 11, 2023, in which more than $383,000 was seized from a Star Light Logistics truck in Birmingham, Alabama.
And on Sept. 12, 2023, officials seized $35,000 in cash and almost 900 pounds of marijuana from a home and a storage unit in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and 32 pounds of cannabis from a vehicle in Gonzales, Louisiana.
The driver in Gonzalez allegedly worked for Star Light Logistics, and “the residence and storage unit in Baton Rouge are alleged to be affiliated with this same organization,” the filing says.
KTLA reached out to Star Light Logistics but did not hear back in time for publication.
