This photo shows the drugs and weapon seized by Gaffney Police Department narcotics agents during a July 12 drug bust. The marijuana, some of it already packaged, weighed a total of about 10 pounds. (Ledger photo / TIM GULLA) In just a little more than two weeks, agents with the Gaffney Police Department’s narcotics unit seized about 14 pounds of marijuana, three vehicles and about an ounce of crack cocaine during several separate drug investigations that resulted in the arrests of six people.

The largest of the drug busts occurred July 12, when investigators set up a controlled drug buy of an ounce of marijuana and ended up seizing about 10 pounds.

According to an incident report, two men — Brian Edward Shifty, 36, of West Carlisle Street and Emison Dwayne Hughes, 19, of Browning Road — pulled up to the designated location in a gold Chevrolet sport utility vehicle and Hughes allegedly got out of the vehicle and came to the room where narcotics unit agents Philip Wilkie and Ron Anderson were waiting.

While the two agents took Hughes into custody, narcotics unit Lt. Doug Whitaker located Shifty and the vehicle, according to the report.

Police said they seized during the arrest an estimated 10 pounds of marijuana, a handgun and just under a gram of crack cocaine.

Both Shifty and Hughes were charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana, authorities said.

On July 16, according to a separate report, city narcotics agents received information that a man in a blue Ford sport utility vehicle was in possession of a quantity of marijuana. Police conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle, driven by Javier Suarez Gonzalez, 30, of Upper Valley Falls Road in Boiling Springs, in the 1700 block of West Floyd Baker Boulevard.

During a search of the vehicle, police said they found a plastic wrapper containing 48.19 ounces, or about four pounds, of suspected marijuana inside a box under the rear left seat.

Gonzalez also was charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana.

Whitaker said the marijuana seized in both cases has a street value of more than $1,000 a pound.

In unrelated recent cases, the agents arrested a Goldmine Road man for trafficking crack cocaine following a July 4 traffic stop that resulted in the seizure of 23.4 grams of suspected crack cocaine and smaller amounts of suspected cocaine and marijuana. James Paul Linder, 45, was charged with trafficking crack following the incident.

On July 20, according to another report, agents charged Jimmy Derrell Austin, 25, of Suez Street, with trafficking crack following the seizure of suspected crack cocaine during an investigation on Railroad Avenue. Austin allegedly possessed more than 10 grams of crack but less than 28 grams, according to the arrest warrant.