A Florida woman is in custody after Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers confiscated nearly three dozen pounds of cocaine from a van she was driving.
Ohio troopers initially stopped a Dodge cargo van with Texas registration on I-75 in Wood County for a turn signal violation on Sept. 19, according to highway patrol officials.
Criminal indicators and an alert from a drug-sniffing K-9 prompted a probable cause search of the van.valued at approximately $1,073,000, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. The driver, identified by authorities as 32-year-old Paige LaTonya-Katryna Hamilton, was booked at the Wood County Jail on drug possession and trafficking charges.Copyright 2022 WOIO. All rights reserved.
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