Drug smuggling

Police Officer With The NYPD Busted Trafficking Heroin, Smuggling Drug Money

Authorities in New York arrested a police officer with the NYPD after she was caught trafficking heroin into Massachusetts and returning with drug money.

Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration made the bust of Officer Yessenia Jimenez, 31, after surveilling her for several months in connection to a broader investigation of drug smuggling from Mexico. Jimenez and her boyfriend, identified as 33-year-old Luis Soto, allegedly attempted to distribute several hundred grams of heroin, reports the New York Post.

A DEA agent stopped Jimenez and Soto Tuesday outside their apartment in the Bronx after seeing Soto unload bags from the trunk of the car. The pair was returning from Massachusetts where they are suspected of meeting with another heroin trafficker.

Police searching the vehicle found $25,000 stuffed into Jimenez’s purse along with her NYPD service weapon. Another $25,000 in drug cash was found in a plastic grocery bag. A subsequent search of their apartment turned up 250 grams of powder that authorities suspect to be heroin.