{"id":275408,"date":"2026-05-02T01:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275408\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:48:09","slug":"suitcase-stuffed-with-marijuana-bursts-open-on-flight-leading-to-arrest-at-dallas-love-field-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275408\/","title":{"rendered":"Suitcase stuffed with marijuana bursts open on flight, leading to arrest at Dallas Love Field, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suitcase that broke open onboard a flight from Las Vegas to Dallas Love Field exposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">significant stash of marijuana<\/a>, prompting an investigation that led to the arrest of a 25\u2011year\u2011old woman, authorities said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Manzanares\u2011Herrera was arrested before she left the airport and charged with possession of marijuana between 50 and 2,000 pounds, a second\u2011degree felony, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Airline staff alerted officers on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Police said the department&#8217;s Narcotics Unit maintains a presence at Love Field to prevent drug trafficking through the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were alerted Thursday when airline staff reported that a suitcase on the Las Vegas flight had broken open, revealing a large quantity of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/love-field-bust.png#.png\" alt=\"love-field-bust.png \" height=\"483\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Dallas Police Department<\/p>\n<p>  Two more suitcases discovered<\/p>\n<p>Narcotics detectives later found two additional suitcases containing vacuum\u2011sealed packages of the drug.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In total, detectives recovered 75 pounds of marijuana, police said.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates should additional information become available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suitcase that broke open onboard a flight from Las Vegas to Dallas Love Field exposed a significant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,20440,103,4081,9933,430,27],"class_list":["post-275408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-love-field","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-las-vegas","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}