TEXARKANA, Ark–A Fort Worth, Texas, woman is facing federal drug trafficking charges in Arkansas after being stopped in a rental car with nine kilos of cocaine stashed in the quarter panels, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday.
Elissia Thomas, 34, aka Elissia Lewis, has been charged in the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansas with possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms, court records show.
Thomas was pulled over at approximately 7:45 a.m., July 17 on Interstate 30 at mile marker 7 in Texarkana, Ark., for a traffic violation, according to the complaint. When the trooper asked Thomas where she was travelling to, she allegedly told him she was driving to Little Rock to pay for her grandfather’s funeral…