ONTARIO - A small fortune was up for grabs Wednesday, and thousands of people left it sitting by the side of the road.
Countless cars and trucks drove past a large rental truck on an Interstate 10 off-ramp that police found abandoned with more than three tons of marijuana inside.
The pot has a street value of about $20million, police said.
California Highway Patrol Sgt. Telfinues Preszler Jr. said a CHP officer from the Rancho Cucamonga station saw the truck partially blocking the Milliken Avenue off-ramp of westbound I-10 at roughly 9 p.m. Wednesday.
The officer smelled "a strong odor of marijuana," and a police dog named Jasper was called to the scene.
"To my understanding, there are no suspects," Preszler said. "There has been no follow-up and no leads of any kind at this moment."
CHP Officer Sean Cooper said he did not know what company the rental truck was from.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department later took possession of the marijuana.
"It's being stored in a secure facility off-site," said sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Beavers.
Only investigators or people processing evidence were allowed in to see the drug cache, she said.
Beavers described the amount of marijuana found as "a very extreme case."