{"id":315855,"date":"2026-06-22T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315855\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:36:08","slug":"florida-woman-calls-911-over-traffic-ticket-deputies-find-28-bags-of-fentanyl-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315855\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman calls 911 over traffic ticket, deputies find 28 bags of fentanyl"},"content":{"rendered":"

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida woman arrested after calling 911 to complain about a traffic ticket was later found with 28 bags of fentanyl hidden inside her body.<\/p>\n

The incident began when deputies blocked a roadway to assist utility crews working on power lines, per the Polk County Sheriff’s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, 48-year-old Gina Redding of Lake Wales bypassed the roadblock, driving around a deputy stationed to redirect traffic. She was stopped at the other end of the closed road by a second deputy and issued a citation.<\/p>\n

Displeased with the ticket, Redding reportedly began following the deputy’s patrol vehicle and called emergency services.<\/p>\n

See also: ‘Dude, where’s my car?’: Palm Beach Co. man says prized Mercedes vanished after tow<\/a><\/p>\n

“She decides, ‘I’ll just dial 911 because I don’t like this traffic ticket,'” Sheriff Judd detailed in a video posted to Facebook<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Due to the unlawful misuse of the emergency system, additional deputies intervened, pulling Redding over a second time to arrest her and cite her for illegally tinted windows.<\/p>\n

Before towing her vehicle, deputies say they conducted a standard inventory search and discovered marijuana.<\/p>\n

However, the most severe discovery occurred during the booking process at the local jail, where an advanced body scan revealed a foreign object.<\/p>\n

Corrections officers subsequently recovered 28 bags of fentanyl hidden inside her “Virginia,” as the Sheriff colloquially referred to it.<\/p>\n

“She says she doesn’t deal fentanyl, but it would certainly explain her conduct,” Sheriff Judd noted, adding, “We didn’t visit ‘Virginia’ any further, we just put her in jail.” <\/p>\n

Redding remains in custody for counts of felony drug trafficking, misuse of 911, and marijuana possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POLK COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida woman arrested after calling 911 to complain about a traffic ticket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-315855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}