After narcotics officers followed and stopped Cecelia Yanez, of Mission, Texas, Monday morning, a police dog indicated a cooler Yanez had in her car might have drugs in it.
Officers pried open the cooler’s sides and found more than 4 pounds of methamphetamine and $80,000 in cash hidden in the walls of a cooler.
Narcotics Division officers were tipped that someone might be transporting methamphetamine from Texas to Chicago, and on Monday they began surveillance of Yanez.
They saw Yanez take the cooler from a hotel on or near the Southwest Side, and take it to a residence in the 5000 block of South Maplewood Avenue.
Officers stopped Yanez about noon, and after they opened the cooler, they found two plastic-wrapped kilogram packages of methamphetamine, worth about $750,000 at current street-drug prices, and about a dozen plastic-wrapped bundles of cash, including $20, $50 and $100 bills, hidden in the cooler’s hollowed-out sides.
Yanez also was cited with several traffic violations and was expected to appear in bond court today.
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