{"id":7953,"date":"2022-06-03T02:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02a2abe44000245d"},"modified":"2025-02-24T19:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T19:55:58","slug":"11-bricks-of-cocaine-found-in-wheelchair-at-charlotte-airport-man-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2022\/06\/03\/11-bricks-of-cocaine-found-in-wheelchair-at-charlotte-airport-man-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"11 BRICKS OF COCAINE FOUND IN WHEELCHAIR AT CHARLOTTE AIRPORT, MAN ARRESTED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 31, 2022 Alexander Lopez-Morel, 22, was charged with 2 counts of trafficking in cocaine in Charlotte, NC at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The suspect allegedly used a wheelchair to hide 11 kilograms of cocaine in it.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/.image\/c_fit,h_600,w_600\/MTg5OTI4MjE1MDY4ODEzMDU0\/1untitkled.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Alexander was in Charlotte for a layover on his way to New Jersey on May 31st. Federal agents say he caught a plane from the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander was giving suspicious answers about his wheelchair use, authorities grew suspicious and found anomalies in the wheelchair seat during a scan. Federal agents cut open the wheelchair seat and found 11 bricks of cocaine stuffed inside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/charlottealertsnews.COM\/charlottealerts\/news\/video-inmate-in-wheel-chair-escapes-from-cop-at-court\">Video shows the moments an inmate in a wheelchair ran for his freedom<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/.image\/c_fit,h_600,w_600\/MTg4Mjg3ODYxODMxNzcxMTUw\/untitled.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security says Alexander faked the need for a wheelchair in order to hide the large amount of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>The cocaine was worth $350,000. Alexander was arrested and then walked to a police car to go to jail, where he is walking just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A latino suspect is accused of faking a walking disability, $350,000 in cocaine was found in his wheelchair, feds say. Now he is miraculously walking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[171,172,678,119,92,162,535,226,107,295,194,98,90,691,483],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drugs","tag-airplanes","tag-airport","tag-airport-arrests","tag-arrest","tag-bricks","tag-cocaine","tag-cocaine-on-flight","tag-dangerous-drugs","tag-drugs","tag-federal","tag-injuries","tag-kilograms","tag-kilos","tag-smuggling-attempt","tag-wheel-chair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16861,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/16861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}