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DRUG CASE AGAINST CALIFORNIA MAN ARRESTED IN ALLIANCE DROPPED

A California man who was arrested at the Alliance airport last March when drugs were found in his airplane is now free.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that charges have disappeared and the man is back home in California.

Chief U.S. District Judge Laurie Camp dismissed the case against 29-year-old Justin Woodcock in October, with the blessing of federal prosecutor Nancy Svoboda.

Woodcock’s attorney had argued that key facts in the search warrant obtained by Alliance police were wrong, as well as a lack of training pertaining to the police department’s drug dog, Capone.  The judge was asked to void the warrant on those two issues.

Woodcock, who allegedly had 195 pounds of marijuana in his possession when arrested, agreed to forfeit his plane as part of an agreement to dismiss the case.

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