EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police in Juarez, Mexico, have arrested a 74-year-old woman allegedly in possession of nearly more than half a pound of cocaine packed into various conveyances.
Chihuahua state police officers, Mexican soldiers and National Guard members carried out a search warrant on a home in the Infonavit Casas Grandes neighborhood and arrested Raquel P.G. after finding more than 11 ounces of the drug, the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
The search revealed a fanny pack with 115 doses of cocaine wrapped in plastic, plastic bag with cocaine powder and cocaine “rocks,” a brown purse with two plastic bags with cocaine and a black purse with three plastic bags also containing the white powdery substance.
Investigators turned over Raquel P.G. to the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office for prosecution. She faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
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