Moving Weight: 3 Women Busted With 65 Pounds of Meth & 3 Pounds of Cocaine at Detroit Metro Airport

3 Women Busted With 65 Pounds of Meth & 3 Pounds of Cocaine at Detroit Metro Airport
Moving Weight: 3 Women Busted With 65 Pounds of Meth & 3 Pounds of Cocaine at Detroit Metro Airport (Image: Screenshot/YouTube/FOX2)

Officers at Detroit Metropolitan Airport were tipped off that someone was smuggling drugs in from Los Angeles. They say they ended up taking that information, did some digging, and it resulted in a large narcotics seizure, FOX2 reported.

Three women have been arrested following a major drug bust at the Detroit Metro in Romulus. Based on a tip, airport police officers confronted Dakisha Woods, Tranece Carter, and Lakeesha Johnson after they stepped off a Delta flight from Los Angeles last Thursday.

A canine officer detected 65 pounds of methamphetamine and three pounds of cocaine in their luggage.

“To date this has been our largest narcotics seizure,” Tad Sturdivant said.

The street value of the drugs, according to Sturdivant, the VP of Public Safety at Detroit Metro, is more than a million dollars.

“That’s not chump change in the streets, or off the streets,” he explained.

According to Sturdivant, the women told authorities during questioning that they assumed they had weed in their bags and not cocaine and meth.

The women, whom are related, were arrested and charged with two counts of possession with intent to distribute, both of which are felonies punishable by long prison sentences.

The drugs were discovered in checked bags, which TSA agents usually examine. FOX 2 wondered how it could have slipped through security at LAX.

“Well that’s part of our investigation process to determine that,” Sturdivant said.

According to Sturdivant, the women had a connecting flight in Detroit and were on their way to Memphis, Tennessee. His unit is now in communication with law enforcement agencies in the mid-South.

All three women remained in the Wayne County Jail after receiving $3,000 cash bonds.

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