{"id":97558,"date":"2025-12-22T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97558\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:28:10","slug":"meth-found-inside-alcohol-containers-at-border-texas-woman-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97558\/","title":{"rendered":"Meth found inside alcohol containers at border; Texas woman arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHARR, Texas &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas<\/a> woman is facing a drug charge after officials found meth concealed inside alcohol containers at the Texas-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/meth-smuggling-alcohol-containers-texas-woman-arrest\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">31-year-old Sandy Jennifer Trevi\u00f1o of Pharr is facing a charge of possession of a controlled substance and was booked into the Hidalgo County Jail earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) says that she entered the US by motor vehicle at the Pharr International Bridge on Nov. 20 and declared she had alcohol with her.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Trevi\u00f1o  (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission)<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A TABC regulatory compliance officer inspected her vehicle and found what appeared to be a case of ready-to-drink cocktails containing tequila. However, the quantity exceeded the state&#8217;s legal limit of distilled spirits that someone can bring into the state for personal use. That limit is one gallon per 30-day period.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The officer retained the cans for disposal, but later discovered that the liquid inside had crystallized. A field test determined the presence of meth.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Trevi\u00f1o was arrested on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/meth-smuggling-alcohol-containers-texas-woman-arrest\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Possession of a controlled substance (Penalty Group 1) is a first-degree felony punishable by five to 99 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The case remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHARR, Texas &#8211; A Texas woman is facing a drug charge after officials found meth concealed inside alcohol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1046,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-97558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97558","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=97558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}