POLK COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) – A woman was arrested after she allegedly stashed 28 bags of fentanyl inside her body, according to the authorities.
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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Gina Redding, 48, passed a roadblock that was set up while utility crews were working on power lines.
Redding allegedly drove past a deputy stationed to redirect traffic. She was stopped at the other end of the closed road by another deputy and given a ticket.
Redding was not happy that she got a ticket, so she followed the deputy’s patrol vehicle and called 911, Judd said.
“She decides, ‘I’ll just dial 911 because I don’t like this traffic ticket,’” he said in a video.
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Redding was pulled over again for “unlawful misuse” of 911. She was arrested and cited for illegally tinted windows.
During a standard inventory search of her vehicle, deputies found marijuana, Judd said.
“But that didn’t explain why she’s acting like this,” Judd said.
When Redding was being booked into the Polk County Jail, she went through a body scanner, which detected a foreign object.
“What we find in her ‘Virginia,’ 28 bags of fentanyl. She says she doesn’t deal fentanyl, but it would certainly explain her conduct,” Judd said. “We didn’t visit ‘Virginia’ any further, we just put her in jail.”
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