Official Says Cartels Trying to Recruit People Police Won’t Suspect

Reported by: Polo Sandoval
Last Update: 7:38 pm

MISSION - A Mission teenager is facing charges she was used as a decoy, and now she's paying the price for her admitted role in drug smuggling case.

Jenny Eloisa Gonzalez had a spotless record. She said she worked in the mortgage department at a valley bank. One single phone call turned her world upside-down.

Jenny Gonzalez's sister tells her everything is going to be OK. The 19-year-old faces a slew of charges. Police say she tried using her SUV to ram a police officer involved in a drug chase.

"It's obvious that her role is somewhere for monetary gain," says Mission police Sgt. Jodi Tittle.

Court records reveal Gonzalez got a phone call from a man named Daniel Garza Garcia. The voice on the other end asked for help. He was caught in drug chase and needed help getting away.

"Females have been used before for smuggling, but this is a first where the female was a decoy that came at the officer," says Tittle.

Tittle admits the use of women as decoys is uncommon. Drug smuggling operations are reaching for those police would least expect, people with legitimate jobs, women looking for easy money.

Police don't know for sure if she was to be paid for her involvement in the chase. Officers did find $4,500 in her purse and another $700 in her apartment. Gonzalez is being held on bond.

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