A Tavares woman was arrested for the several baggies of drugs she removed from her bra during a traffic stop.
An officer observed a white Kia passenger car traveling southbound in front of his patrol vehicle on County Road 468 at 2:05 a.m. Sunday, according to an arrest report from the Fruitland Park Police Department. The three occupants, including 30-year-old Genoveva Salena Sweeney, were traveling 44 mph in a 35-mph zone.
After stopping the vehicle near Griffin Road, the officer noticed the male driver looked nervous. He took quick, shallow breaths, avoided eye contact and had a pulse so rapid that it was visible in an artery in his neck. The officer also saw a small plastic baggie, typically used to store narcotics, in the center console compartment. The driver tried to hide it with his right arm, the report said.
Believing there were possibly narcotics within the vehicle, the officer told the occupants not to move anything as he returned to his patrol vehicle. He walked back to the vehicle once more officers and a K-9 arrived on scene. He noted that the baggie was no longer in the center console, the report said.
All occupants were then removed from the vehicle, and the K-9 positively alerted to the odor of narcotics. A subsequent search of the vehicle did not yield the baggie, but several possible pieces of paraphernalia were found. Searches of the driver and the other passenger yielded nothing, either, the report said.
When it came to Sweeney, she admitted to having something concealed on her person. She retrieved several baggies and items of paraphernalia from her bra, handing them to an officer. These were determined to be two baggies of fentanyl, two baggies of methamphetamine, a piece of burnt foil, a cut straw and the same clear baggie that had been in the center console, the report said.
Sweeney advised that she was concealing the items for the other passenger. She concealed the baggie in the center console on her own after he asked her to, but they were not hers, the report said.
However, the other passenger stated he did not know anything about the narcotics. When the officer walked away, Sweeney asked if he was looking. He did not see her conceal anything, the report said.
Sweeney was ultimately arrested on charges of possession of methamphetamine and fentanyl. She was booked at Lake County Jail and released after posting $5,000 bond.
The California native was also one of two arrested in April 2025 when a K-9 sniffed out narcotics in their vehicle.