GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi woman has admitted she was involved in transporting meth from Texas to Gulfport in a spare tire in her vehicle.
The Sun Herald reports (https://bit.ly/2fuOfBl ) 50-year-old Melissa Brewer faces up to five years in prison on a guilty plea to a charge of travel in aid of drug racketeering enterprises. She will be sentenced on Feb. 10.
Brewer and 39-year-old Mark Hanks were arrested Feb. 11, when federal agents said they found the couple with a half-pound of meth and over $10,000 in suspected drug money at Gulfport motel. Federal agents say the spare tire had been cut and the meth was hidden in it.
A federal judge in September fined Hanks $10,000 and sentenced him to 16 years and eight months in prison for distributing meth.
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Information from: The Sun Herald, https://www.sunherald.com
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