UPDATE, Jan. 29, 2013: On Jan. 18, federal prosecutors dropped all charges against Damieon Foster. See the prosecutors request for dismissal here, and the judge’s granting of that request here

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Fayetteville, Ark.’s 5NEWS reports that federal prosecutors have charged two Humboldt County residents with drug trafficking after they allegedly flew a plane full of weed into northern Arkansas. The two are Karl Sperling, 35, and Damieon Foster, 36.

Sperling (left, above) is listed as a private pilot in the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airmen registry. Foster (right) is a local guitarist best known as a member of the bands Side Iron and Que La Chinga.