A Hanceville man is out on bond following a trafficking arrest earlier this week that yielded a trove of marijuana from multiple locations across Cullman County, including an alleged seven pounds recovered from the suspect’s Hanceville residence.

Joshua Gerald Lott, 28, was arrested Sept. 18 following a lengthy investigation by the Hanceville Police Department that netted an alleged 27 pounds of marijuana from three locations, including the alleged quantity recovered at Lott’s residence along Linda Warren Circle in Hanceville.

Police also recovered a large amount of cash, as well as firearms, as a result of the weeks-long investigation. Hanceville assistant police chief Adam Hadder said the drugs were recovered not only from the residence in Hanceville, but also from another location in the City of Cullman, as well as another location in rural Cullman County.

Hadder also said the large quantity of marijuana recovered reflects an organized effort that extends well beyond the suspect, and that more arrests are forthcoming.

“This just started in Hanceville, but then it extended to the other locations,” he said. “I guess you’d call it a ‘ring,’ because they had a connection in California. Sometimes they were going out there and getting it — and sometimes they were shipping it back via the U.S. Mail.” Using the postal service in the commission of a felony, Hadder noted, is a federal crime.

Lott bonded out of the Cullman County Detention Center, and is set to appear on a single count of trafficking in illegal drugs.

Hadder said the investigation was conducted by the Hanceville Police Department with ongoing communication between Hanceville Police and the Cullman Police Department.

“There’s been a lot of leg work to this; a lot of boots on the ground,” he said. “It pretty much involved everybody in the department, from our patrol division to investigation to even the chief of police. And I also appreciate Mayor Kenneth Nail for supporting our department in pursuing a case of this magnitude.”

The bust represents a major insurgence, at least for the time being, in the marijuana trade that supplies Cullman County, said Hadder, who noted that the street price of the marijuana recovered in the arrest is approximately $2,200 per pound.

“They were supplying everybody,” he said. “More arrests are coming. It’s gonna be dry in Cullman County for a while after this.”