It might sound

unusual to say the Fayette County Sheriff's Department busted a guy for

taking out his dirty laundry in Peachtree City Tuesday morning.

No, they weren't

enforcing an obscure city regulation. Under the clothes in his laundry

basket, Steven Moses Turner was hiding an 11-pound "brick" of

marijuana, according to police.

Turner, 24,

was taken to the cleaners in a different way arrested on the spot for

possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, outside his home at

the Amli Apartments.

The marijuana

was wrapped tightly in plastic cellophane, and officials believe he was

about to make "a delivery." The marijuana had a street value

of approximately $9,000, said Sgt. Belinda McCastle.

Agents of the

department's Drug Task Force planned to execute a warrant on Turner's

residence at 1335 Hyacinth Lane in the AMLI Apartments complex Tuesday

morning, McCastle added. But to their surprise, Turner walked outside

in plain view instead, McCastle added.

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