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By News 14 Carolina Staff

CLEVELAND COUNTY, N.C. — A man was arrested overnight Tuesday in one of the largest drug busts in Cleveland County history.
Deputies were conducting a routine checkpoint on Mount Sinai Church Road near Shelby when they noticed a car abruptly turn into a driveway.
They say Luis Enrique Sanchez Ortega, 33, jumped out of his car and ran. Deputies discovered 220 pounds of marijuana inside the car. It’s valued at $750,000. After an hour-long search with a police helicopter and K9 unites, Ortega was caught hanging on an axle underneath a parked truck. He told police that he lives in Newberry, S.C. and that he is not a U.S. citizen. Ortega is charged with trafficking marijuana and is now being held under $1 million bond.