A hearing is scheduled in state district court this week for a Florida man, charged in connection with a 2010 incident in which bags full of marijuana were dumped out of a plane flying across Hunt County.
Randall Thomas May, 52, of Palm Bay Fla., has pleaded not guilty to one count of possession of between 50 and 2,000 pounds of marijuana.
May was indicted by the Hunt County grand jury in December 2013 and was taken into custody by the Brevard County Florida Sheriff’s Office before being placed in local custody.
A pretrial hearing is scheduled Tuesday in the 354th District Court. Jury selection is currently set for January 26.
May is the second individual charged in connection with the incident. Darin William Fayne was found not guilty by a jury of the same charge in September 2013.
Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks said he sent investigators from his office to Florida in August 2013 to obtain a DNA sample from May.
Six duffel bags believed connected to a plane abandoned early the morning of July 19, 2010 at the Caddo Mills Municipal Airport have been recovered. The street value of the more than 200 pounds of hydroponic marijuana has been estimated at up to $1.5 million.
The possession charge is a second degree felony, punishable upon conviction by a maximum sentence of from two to 20 years in prison and an optional fine of up to $10,000.