Eighty-one pounds marijuana, with the street value 130-thousand dollars has been seized, and is now off the streets of Pueblo.

Detectives say this drug bust is unusual, since most illegal drugs they find tend to come from Mexico and travel north. But the drugs from this bust were being shipped south.

After a three-month long investigation, the Pueblo County Sheriff's office put a stop to a cross-county drug operation.

When learning a shipment of marijuana was headed to Pueblo from Colorado Springs, Narcotics officers made a traffic stop on I-25 in North Pueblo County, and found 81 pounds of packaged marijuana.

"We're finding that to be more typical than not that a large supply is coming from our northern cities and traveling south," says J.R. Hall, Pueblo County Undersheriff.

23-year-old Ignacio Martinez, and 26-year-old Justin Lucas Wetnight were arrested for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

Both men are from Pueblo.

The Sheriff's Narcotics team says the marijuana could have been sold for about 130-thousand dollars.

Martinez is out on 75-thousand dollars bond, and Wetnight is still behind bars.