Customs: Woman used dreamcatchers to try to smuggle meth

Published December 19, 2016

A 25-year-old woman is facing charges after U.S. border customs officials say she tried to smuggle liquid methamphetamine inside Native American-style dreamcatchers.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say the woman was detained Sunday at the Columbus, New Mexico Port of Entry after a drug-sniffing dog alerted customs officers. The officers found six dreamcatchers in the woman's 2000 Dodge Neon.

Officials say the dreamcatchers' rings were made of rubber tubing filled with a liquid that later tested positive for methamphetamine.

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The woman from Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, was handed over to ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents.

Officials say she was traveling with her eight-year-old and one-year-old daughters.

CBP Columbus Port Director Robert Reza says it was one of the most unusual smuggling episodes agents have ever encountered.

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