Suitcase Break Leads to Major Airport Arrest

I’m not sure if you heard about this last week at a Texas airport, but there was one woman who got into some major trouble after her bag broke open at Dallas Love Field and airline staff discovered that she was traveling with an illegal substance. According to NBCDFW, police say the woman was traveling from Las Vegas to Dallas when detectives found the drugs in her three suitcases.

Suitcase Incident at Dallas Love Field

It probably wouldn’t make the news if this woman had just a tiny amount of marijuana packed into her bags. But instead the woman was arrested with 75 pounds of marijuana stuffed inside her three suitcases. Marijuana remains largely illegal under Texas law so there will be some serious charges for trying to pack this much into her luggage.

How Police Found the Marijuana

Last week police said they were notified that a bag had broken open and a large amount of marijuana was visible inside. Narcotics detectives were dispatched and they found the passenger’s two additional suitcases also full of vacuum-sealed pouches of the green leafy substance.

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