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A Dallas woman faces up to life in prison after she admitted to driving more than $1 million of heroin and methamphetamine across the border into Texas concealed in the tires of her SUV.
Monica Christine Canales Rodriguez, 51, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy to import a controlled substance.
Canales Rodriguez was stopped the afternoon of Sept. 28 as she entered the country from Mexico at the Lincoln-Juárez Port of Entry in Laredo.
She told a Customs and Border Protection officer that she was returning to Dallas after spending two weeks with her boyfriend in Querétaro, about 100 miles northwest of Mexico City. The officer noticed that she seemed nervous and was avoiding eye contact, and she had just two sets of clothes with her, according to court documents.
Officers had Canales Rodriguez drive her Toyota 4Runner through a scanner, which revealed “anomalies” on all four tires. After a drug-detecting dog gave a positive alert to one of the tires, officers removed them and found 24 bundles of drugs — about 100 pounds of heroin and 30 pounds of meth, worth more than $1.3 million, authorities said.