Woman accused of trafficking marijuana from California through JAX

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Since April, authorities person seized implicit 500 pounds of cookware flown into airport

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville pistillate was arrested connected charges of trafficking a ample quantity of marijuana into Florida from California.

According to an apprehension warrant, Albany Bisch, 23, was taken into custody astatine her apartment. Investigators said the apprehension comes 9 months aft she and different pistillate smuggled 55 pounds of marijuana into Jacksonville connected a formation that originated successful Sacramento.

It’s not the archetypal communicative similar this News4JAX has covered astatine the airport. Since April of past year, authorities said they person seized much than 500 pounds of marijuana flown into the airdrome from California.

Just past week, the Florida Highway Patrol said 125 pounds of cookware were recovered stuffed successful suitcases seized successful a postulation stop adjacent JAX. Troopers noted that determination were baggage assertion tickets connected to the luggage.

According to the warrant, backmost connected April 30, Bisch and a pistillate from Orange Park had checked 2 suitcases filled with vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana connected a United Airlines formation from Sacramento, California to Jacksonville.

Investigators said the luggage was reported by an airdrome information authoritative who contacted national agents, and by the clip the women arrived successful Jacksonville, members of a cause task unit were waiting connected them and kept surveillance connected their movement.

Investigators said the women grabbed the luggage and past proceeded to the airdrome parking batch wherever they handed the luggage implicit to a man, identified arsenic Omar Alvarado, who placed the luggage successful the backmost of a Lexus and drove off.

State troopers said they pulled the Lexus implicit and arrested Alvarado connected charges of trafficking a ample quantity of marijuana.

Nine months later, Bisch was picked up connected a warrant and has bonded retired of jail. It appears the different pistillate has not been captured yet.

Since April of past year, 8 radical person been arrested for trafficking ample amounts of marijuana from California done JAX.

Jacksonville DEA Assistant Special Agent successful Charge Mike Dubet says each lb of marijuana smuggled connected flights into Jacksonville from California is not meant to beryllium sold astatine ineligible aesculapian marijuana dispensaries.

“This is income occurring nether the screen of darkness,” helium said. “These are deals successful which some dealers and customers get astatine the country with handguns and different weapons.”

But not each the seized weed comes into JAX by mode of commercialized flights.

Two months ago, News4JAX reported the apprehension of 52-year aged De Zhong Wang and 27-year aged Hui Lee who were arrested connected marijuana trafficking charges during a postulation halt aft they near the airport.

According to investigators, the brace were nether surveillance by a cause task unit and were seen loading boxes of marijuana into their conveyance that was parked astatine an air-freight hanger aft a freight level flew into Jacksonville from the West Coast. The brace were arrested aft driving distant from the airport.