Police: Woman’s bag of cocaine ‘too heavy’ for trooper’s scale

A Florida trooper found a shoe box with two bricks of cocaine wrapped in tin foil in a woman’s vehicle, but it was too much for his scale

February 01, 2018 12:21 PM

Vivana Maria Carcasses, 28, was arrested on at least 10 drug-related charges, including cocaine trafficking and MDMA trafficking.

By Will Greenlee
Treasure Coast Newspapers, Stuart, Fla.

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. — If a state trooper reports finding an amount of cocaine in your car that’s too heavy for the trooper’s scale, that’s probably not a good thing.

It’s the situation Vivana Maria Carcasses, 28, of Ocala, found herself in Monday afternoon on Florida’s Turnpike, an arrest report states.

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper was on the Turnpike several miles north of Okeechobee Road and stopped a white car after noticing “dark window tint,” the affidavit states.

The driver, identified as Carcasses, pulled over quickly, and a trooper approached the car.

“Right away I could smell raw marijuana coming from the car,” the affidavit states.

Investigators reported finding an ounce of marijuana in a condom in Carcasses’s purse. An electronic cigarette with hash oil and another bag of marijuana also was in the purse.

In the vehicle’s trunk, a trooper found a shoe box with two bricks of cocaine wrapped in tin foil.

“I could not weigh the cocaine it was to(o) heavy for my scale,” an affidavit states.

Another purse had “a container with hash paste and oil.” A plastic bag contained a “reddish powder.”

Lt. Alvaro A. Feola, FHP spokesman, said Tuesday the cocaine turned out to weigh 5.6 pounds.

“Drugs are on the highways,” Feola said. “That stuff is out there on the roadways.”

The trooper was able to weigh some Ecstasy, and reported it was 15 ounces — almost a pound.

Carcasses was arrested on at least 10 drug-related charges, including cocaine trafficking and MDMA trafficking.

FHP officials took the evidence to a local FHP station to be weighed and to be put into lockers, an affidavit states.

Cocaine, which comes in powder form, is a stimulant that is highly addictive, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. About 90 percent of powder cocaine that comes in to the U.S. is produced in Colombia.

Portions of the arrest affidavit are redacted.

Carcasses was released Tuesday from St. Lucie County Jail on $249,000 bail, a jail official said.