Wheelchair Bound 74-Year-Old Woman Arrested For Being Drug Kingpin

Story out of Orlando, Florida:

Agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced the takedown of a "significant" heroin organization operating in the middle of an Orlando neighborhood.

Agents arrested 10 people in the bust Tuesday as part of what they called "Operation Deals on Wheels."

Three of those arrested were selling heroin out of a home in the eastern section of the city, agents say.

Ruth Perez-Lopez, 74, who is bound to a wheelchair, is considered by agents as the matriarch of the organization, which was peddling as many as two kilos of heroin per month and generating as much as $300,000 per month, according to agents.

Perez-Lopez's bond at the Orange County Jail was set at more than $600,000, and if she somehow finds the money to post bond, she will have to prove to a judge that it didn't come from the proceeds of selling drugs. Cont.

Story from - Click Orlando