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Sentencing is set for April 12 for a Southern California man who was pulled over driving a big rig containing 14 tons of marijuana.

Federal court records show 51-year-old Angel Guillen Raya of Ontario, in San Bernardino County, pleaded guilty this week to transporting the marijuana with the intent to distribute it.

Raya was driving a big rig on Interstate 15 south of Temecula in August when he was pulled over for making an unsafe lane change, The Press-Enterprise reported.

Court records say a drug-sniffing dog alerted deputies to the presence of drugs. Deputies opened the trailer and found pallets of marijuana stacked to the ceiling.

A US attorney's office spokesman says no one else has been charged in the case, but an investigation into the source of the marijuana is ongoing.

- AP