{"id":405661,"date":"2026-09-20T20:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/405661\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T20:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:38:21","slug":"wallet-surprise-florida-traffic-stop-ends-in-fentanyl-trafficking-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/405661\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallet Surprise: Florida traffic stop ends in fentanyl trafficking arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRANDON, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A traffic stop in Brandon led to the arrest of a Florida woman after deputies spotted 7 grams of fentanyl in her wallet as she dug for her ID.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/search?find=Hillsborough+County+Sheriff%27s+Office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a>, deputies conducted a traffic stop shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Thursday near Williams Road and Sarah Louise Drive.<\/p>\n<p>As 52-year-old Katrina Bolduc was getting out her license, deputies reportedly saw a clear plastic bag containing a white powder inside her wallet.<\/p>\n<p>The substance weighed 7.6 grams and tested positive for fentanyl, according to HCSO.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/drug-regulation-university-plates-gang-membership-12-new-florida-laws-coming-oct-1-florida-laws-2026-october-1-laws-florida-legislature-hb-397-hb-429-sb-432-sb-488-sb-490-hb-559-hb-639-hb-1293-sb-1332-hb-1525-hb-4039-hb-4093-pretrial-relea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nitrous oxide, license plates, gang rules: 12 new Florida laws taking effect Oct. 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bolduc was arrested around 12:07 p.m. and booked into jail later that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>She faces a first-degree felony charge of trafficking in fentanyl between 4 and 14 grams, along with a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRANDON, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A traffic stop in Brandon led to the arrest of a Florida woman after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-405661","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\/405661","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=405661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}