Truck Driver’s Hearing Vacated, Reset for April 4

Boise (670 KBOI News) – The driver of a truck filled with what he said was hemp, but ISP isn’t so sure, has his preliminary hearing rescheduled.

According to the Idaho court records website, the hearing for Denis Palamarchuk, which was scheduled for Thursday, has been vacated and reset for April 4th.

Palamarchuk is the driver of the truck that was seized at the East Boise Port of Entry in January, loaded with nearly three and a half tons of material which he said was hemp, but state troopers suspected was marijuana.

A sample of the material was sent off to Kentucky for testing, but those results have not been made public yet.

Palamarchuk is from Portland; his full name is Denis Vladimrovich Palamarchuk.  A Russian translator is scheduled to be in on the preliminary hearing on April 4th.