About 5 pounds of cocaine were seized over the weekend in Soledad. That after a K-9 alerted officers to the controlled substance during a traffic stop on Highway 101 on Saturday. Soledad police officers also confiscated 5-thousand dollars in cash, and several cell phones. The 29 year-old Salinas driver, Hector Uribe, has been charged with the Transportation And Sale Of Narcotics. He was booked into Monterey County Jail.