Woman arrested after fentanyl was found in her luggage at Sky Harbor: Phoenix PD

PHOENIX - Phoenix Police officials say they have arrested a woman after they found fentanyl in her luggage.

In a statement made to the department's X (formerly Twitter) page, officials said the woman was traveling to Atlanta from Phoenix when the drugs were found.

While Phoenix Police did not identify the female suspect, court documents we received identified the woman arrested as 24-year-old Martisha Missouri Montgomery.

Per investigators, the incident began to unfold at around 11:00 p.m. on Sept. 16, when TSA workers got an alert for suspicious packages inside a checked luggage during a screening.

"During further TSA inspection, six sealed bricks were located within the suitcase liner," read a portion of the court documents. "The six packages appeared to be double sealed in food saver plastic vacuum bags, and wrapped in tape."

As for the suspect, officials said in a post-Miranda interview, she answered questions related to personal information, but stopped answering when asked about the purpose of her travel. Montgomery has been booked into jail, and is accused of a count of felony narcotic drug transportation.