500 Pounds Of Weed Spilt On Missouri Highway On 4/20 During 3-Car Crash

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Missouri troopers won't be forgetting this year's 4/20 anytime soon.

4/20 celebrations didn't go down without incident in Missouri this year, according to TMZ. On April 20th, a 3-car crash resulted in a reported 500 pounds of marijuana, contained in plastic bags, flying across the highway.   

The incident took place on Interstate 70 in Callaway County, cops have revealed. A pickup truck carrying the cannabis swerved to avoid an initial crash, ultimately causing a chain reaction with two tractor-trailers.

500 Pounds Of Weed Spilt On Missouri Highway On 4/20 During 3-Car Crash
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Maintaining some humour surrounding the situation, Missouri State Highway Patrol wrote, "You don't see this every day, but it is 4/20" on Twitter, sharing a picture of the chaos unfolding on the road in front of them.

"After it was all collected at the crash scene, it took more than one patrol car to transport it to the evidence room," they continued in another post, dropping off another snapshot of a pile of dozens of sealed packages, jam-packed with green bud.


The two larger trucks are said to have made it out of the crash with "repairable damage," although the pickup truck involved was totalled. Seeing as recreational marijuana remains illegal in Missouri, David Mora Navarro and Victor Gonzalez Acosta were both arrested and charged with drug trafficking – the latter was also hit with a reckless driving charge.

Both men were transported to a hospital to receive care for their moderate injuries, along with passenger Edith Daniel Lerma.


In other 4/20 news, we sat down with Curren$y to discuss his weed-smoking rappers Mount Rushmore, among other stoner topics – read more about that here, and tap back in with HNHH later for more news updates.

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Hayley Hynes is the former Weekend Managing Editor of HotNewHipHop, she stepped down after two years in 2024 to pursue other creative opportunities but remains on staff part-time to cover music, gossip, and pop culture news. Currently, she contributes similar content on Blavity and 21Ninety, as well as on her personal blog where she also offers tarot/astrology services. Hayley resides on the western side of Canada, previously spending a year in Vancouver to study Fashion Marketing at Blanche Macdonald Centre and Journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary before that. She's passionate about helping others heal through storytelling, and shares much more about her life on Instagram @hayleyhynes.
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