A 40-year-old woman is facing serious drug trafficking charges for allegedly receiving a package from Mexico that was packed with pounds of methamphetamine and cannabis.
Prosecutors said an undercover officer delivered the parcel to a home in the 5800 block of South Mozart Street earlier this month. Brisa Lopez allegedly walked over, picked it up, and carried it into her own house before opening it, setting off a silent alarm that triggered a police raid, according to a detention petition.
The box allegedly contained more than 2-1/2 pounds of methamphetamine and more than two pounds of cannabis. The alarm, activated by a mechanism investigators installed on the package before delivery, prompted the execution of a pre-approved search warrant. Officers detained her as she tried to run out her back door.
Prosecutors said police found the parcel stashed in a bedroom closet next to an unloaded assault rifle. They also recovered the drugs, $1,066 cash, narcotics packaging, and digital scales, according to the detention petition. Prosecutors said Lopez admitted to opening the package.
Judge Deidre Dyer ordered her detained, saying Lopez had a “lethal quantity of drugs” and that signs pointed to her involvement in other “large-scale drug transactions.”
Lopez is charged with meth trafficking, delivery of meth, and manufacture and delivery of cannabis. Both meth counts are Class X felonies, Illinois’ most severe crime category short of murder.
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