Eliana Y. Acosta, 30, was arrested Thursday at Miami International Airport on a cannabis-trafficking charge.[1][2] She was stopped at the jet bridge before she could board a flight to Santo Domingo and acknowledged the checked luggage was hers.[1] Acosta is a citizen of the Dominican Republic who lives in McAdoo, Pennsylvania.[3] She was booked into jail and appeared before a judge on Friday, who set her bond at $10,000.[3]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers were conducting inspections at the airport because of a high trend of narcotics being smuggled outbound from the United States.[1][2] Officers inspected Acosta’s checked bag and found 28 vacuum-sealed packages containing a green leafy substance.[1] The substance tested positive for marijuana and weighed about 15.26 kilograms, or 33.64 pounds.[1]

The incident was described as the latest of several recent drug-trafficking arrests at the airport, including an arrest earlier that week of a woman from California.[3]

Acosta, who lives in Pennsylvania’s town of McAdoo, was not allowed to board her American Airlines flight to Santo Domingo.[2] A CBP Passenger Enforcement Rover Team, which conducts targeted inspections, reported Acosta was traveling to the Dominican Republic with the marijuana.[2] Acosta, 30, was booked shortly after 12:40 a.m. on Friday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, faced a marijuana-trafficking charge, and her bond was $10,000.[2]