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A Park City police officer on Thursday seized about 17 pounds of suspected marijuana during a traffic stop on Interstate 80, police reported Friday.

The officer was working on a joint drug interdiction operation with the Summit County Sheriff's Office when he stopped an eastbound rental car New Jersey license plates just east of the I-84 interchange, police said in a news release.

During the course of the traffic stop, a police service dog from the Summit County Sheriff's Office gave a positive indication on the vehicle. Inside the trunk, officers located the suspected arijuana, 136 grams of suspected concentrated extract of marijuana (called dabs) and a marijuana pipe. Police estimated the street value of the drugs was more than $25,000.

The driver, a 31-year-old man from Wichita, Kan., was booked into the Summit County jail on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance and three traffic violations.

A passenger in the car, a 27-year-old man from West Linn, Ore., was booked on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance.