Two young Homerville men stopped for speeding on I-75 in Turner County Friday night now face charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute after a deputy found roughly seven pounds of the substance in the back seat of the Cadillac Deville they were driving.

According to Turner County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Mike Taylor, Deputy Tim King stopped the 1998 Cadillac at 10:10 p.m. Friday for going 87 mph in a 70 mph speed zone. King said when he looked into the car after he had stopped it, he saw a small bag of marijuana lying between the driver and the passenger.

“He got the driver out and secured him and when he went back to get the passenger out, the bag was gone,” Taylor said.

Taylor said, according to the incident report, that King asked driver Brett Hamilton Warren, 19, if there were any more drugs in the car and Warren told him there were more in the back seat. The marijuana, packaged and wrapped in plastic, was inside a blue canvas bag similar to a garment bag.

Both Warren and passenger Lafiyama Devontea Lacey, 20, were charged with violation of the Georgia controlled substances act and possession with intent to distribute. Warren was also charged with speeding.

Taylor said the two are believed to have been traveling back to Homerville from the Macon and Warner Robins area.

“It was packaged and wrapped in plastic and our drug agents just picked it up to unwrap it and get the official weight on it today,” Taylor said Tuesday. “They did a field test initially to make sure it was marijuana. We will get the official weight and their findings after the tests are conducted.”

Turner County Sheriff Randy Kendrick said that the bust was one of the largest in Turner County that he could recall. He commended King for the arrests.

“I appreciate the deputies and what they do to keep this stuff off the streets and keep our roads safe,” Kendrick said.

To contact senior reporter Angie Thompson, call 382-4321.