{"id":278106,"date":"2026-05-04T12:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278106\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:52:43","slug":"woman-arrested-at-dallas-love-field-after-75-pounds-of-marijuana-spills-from-broken-suitcase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278106\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested at Dallas Love Field after 75 pounds of marijuana spills from broken suitcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police arrested 25-year-old Jennifer Manzanares-Herrera at Dallas Love Field after finding 75 pounds of marijuana in her luggage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The drugs were discovered by an airline employee after a suitcase broke open on a flight arriving from Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Manzanares-Herrera faces a second-degree felony charge for possession of marijuana between 50 and 2,000 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DALLAS &#8211; A woman was arrested at Dallas Love Field after authorities discovered 75 pounds of marijuana in her luggage on a flight arriving from Las Vegas, Dallas police said on their social media account.<\/p>\n<p>Suitcase breaks open during Las Vegas flight<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas police officers were alerted on Thursday by an airline employee after a suitcase broke open on board the flight, revealing a large quantity of marijuana hidden inside.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Narcotics detectives responded and found two additional suitcases containing marijuana packaged in vacuum-sealed pouches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In total, investigators recovered about 75 pounds of the drug, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1694b040c2510829300d6dabfb241a12.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives identified the passenger as 25-year-old Jennifer Manzanares-Herrera and took her into custody before she left the airport.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Jennifer Manzanares-Herrera&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a70b8083e8d624ac3a750ac8832e758d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Manzanares-Herrera<\/p>\n<p>Passenger faces felony drug possession<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Manzanares-Herrera was charged with possession of marijuana between 50 and 2,000 pounds, a second-degree felony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article was provided by Dallas police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Police arrested 25-year-old Jennifer Manzanares-Herrera at Dallas Love Field after finding 75 pounds of marijuana in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102722,102,104,20440,103,401,102720,102721,102723,3328,48102],"class_list":["post-278106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-airline-employee","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-love-field","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-jennifer-manzanares-herrera","tag-las-vegas-flight","tag-manzanares-herrera","tag-marijuana","tag-possession-of-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278106","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=278106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}