{"id":279359,"date":"2026-05-05T06:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279359\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:56:38","slug":"suitcase-full-of-marijuana-bursts-open-on-flight-arrest-made-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279359\/","title":{"rendered":"Suitcase full of marijuana bursts open on flight, arrest made in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0May 03, 2026 at 1:35PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0May 02, 2026 at 4:12PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DALLAS, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/dallas-love-field-suitcase-marijuana-arrest-flight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTVT<\/a>) &#8212; A suitcase that broke open onboard a flight from Las Vegas to Dallas Love Field exposed a significant stash of marijuana, prompting an investigation that led to the arrest of a 25\u2011year\u2011old woman, authorities said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Airline staff alerted officers on Thursday Police said the department\u2019s Narcotics Unit maintains a presence at Love Field to prevent drug trafficking through the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Narcotics detectives later found two additional suitcases containing vacuum\u2011sealed packages of the drug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In total, detectives recovered 75 pounds of marijuana, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CBS News Texas will provide updates should additional information become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0May 03, 2026 at 1:35PM EDT Published:\u00a0May 02, 2026 at 4:12PM EDT DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) &#8212; A suitcase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18991,102,104,103],"class_list":["post-279359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-apple-news","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279359","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=279359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}