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NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- New York police allegedly found 50 pounds of marijuana in the home of a 41-year-old man who walked into a police station with a bag of pot, sources say.
Unidentified sources said Benito Barrios walked into a New York police station with a 25-pound bag of marijuana this week and allegedly claimed he found it inside a dresser at the furniture store where he works, the New York Post reported Saturday.
The sources said suspicious police soon asked to search Barrios' home and, after receiving permission to do so, allegedly found 50 more pounds of marijuana in his back yard.
Sources offered no clues as to Barrios' motive for turning over the initial 25-pound bag of pot Thursday.
An unidentified spokesman for Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan told the Post Barrios and his 30-year-old wife Kristine are each facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted on felony pot-possession charges.
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