{"id":854,"date":"2013-10-03T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxygenworldwide.wordpress.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T09:39:50","slug":"elderly-woman-who-uses-an-oxygen-tank-is-charged-with-drug-trafficking-at-her-new-mexico-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/elderly-woman-who-uses-an-oxygen-tank-is-charged-with-drug-trafficking-at-her-new-mexico-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman who uses an oxygen tank is charged with drug trafficking at her New Mexico apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>84-year-old tried to hide stash of cocaine in raid, police say<\/li>\n<li>Neighbors say she let son sell drugs so he could care for her<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail Reporter<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>PUBLISHED:<\/strong>\u00a019:58 GMT, 23 May 2013\u00a0|\u00a0<strong>UPDATED:<\/strong>\u00a013:51 GMT, 24 May 2013<br \/>\nShe may not look like a typical drug dealer, but this 84-year-old woman who uses an oxygen tank has just been charged with drug trafficking and possession.<br \/>\nLillie Smith is also charged with tampering with evidence after she tried to hide cocaine and\u00a0marijuana that she had on her when police raided her\u00a0Albuquerque apartment.<br \/>\n&#8216;It&#8217;s definitely not something you see everyday,&#8217;\u00a0 Sgt Aaron Williamson, of Bernalillo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, said.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dub121.afx.ms\/att\/GetInline.aspx?messageid=479b4f8b-1f74-11e3-8145-00215ad8015c&amp;attindex=0&amp;cp=-1&amp;attdepth=0&amp;imgsrc=cid:part3.06090703.06050801%40rutgerberntsen.com&amp;cid=eb56ec99aac3ba40&amp;shared=1&amp;hm__login=janinadowney&amp;hm__domain=hotmail.com&amp;ip=10.111.10.8&amp;d=d1513&amp;mf=0&amp;hm__ts=Sun%2c%2029%20Sep%202013%2021:12:33%20GMT&amp;st=janinadowney&amp;hm__ha=01_a49704e7309f54cf65f0b7d11cbf5ae232d91a980fe3075222af89f6ad1d6ea1&amp;oneredir=1\" alt=\"Unusual suspect: The oxygen pipe 84-year-old Lillie Smith uses is clearly visible in her mug shot\" width=\"634\" height=\"465\" \/>Unusual suspect: The oxygen pipe 84-year-old Lillie Smith uses is clearly visible in her mug shot<\/div>\n<p>The charges relate to a warrant served at Smith&#8217;s apartment in 2011, when her son, Nathan Jones, was living with her.<br \/>\nOfficers believed that her son was dealing drugs from their home.<br \/>\n&#8216;There were scales, money, narcotics things of that nature that we generally find with drug trafficking,&#8217; Sgt Williamson said.<br \/>\nSmith&#8217;s neighbors described the elderly woman as kind to a fault, and told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.krqe.com\/dpp\/news\/crime\/elderly-woman-charged-for-dealing-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRQE\u00a0<\/a>she had allowed her son to deal drugs from her home because she wanted someone to take care of her.<br \/>\nHowever, police believe she was involved in the illegal operation and say she had cocaine and\u00a0marijuana on her when they searched her home.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>More&#8230;<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2329599\/Mystery-beer-thief-stole-ale-couples-backyard-year-suddenly-leaves-apology-note-140-cash.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mystery beer thief who stole ale from couple&#8217;s backyard for over a year suddenly leaves apology note and $140 cash<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2329491\/Volunteer-searcher-broke-looking-lost-hiker-high-meth-sue-teenager-guilty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer searcher who broke back looking for lost hiker &#8216;high on meth&#8217; will sue if teenager is found guilty<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;When detectives were on scene she did try to take the narcotics that were on her person out and stash them,&#8217; Sgt\u00a0 Williamson said.<br \/>\nJones was arrested on drug charges but because of her medical condition, his mother avoided being charged &#8211; until now.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dub121.afx.ms\/att\/GetInline.aspx?messageid=479b4f8b-1f74-11e3-8145-00215ad8015c&amp;attindex=1&amp;cp=-1&amp;attdepth=1&amp;imgsrc=cid:part7.03070606.07090502%40rutgerberntsen.com&amp;cid=eb56ec99aac3ba40&amp;shared=1&amp;hm__login=janinadowney&amp;hm__domain=hotmail.com&amp;ip=10.111.10.8&amp;d=d1513&amp;mf=0&amp;hm__ts=Sun%2c%2029%20Sep%202013%2021:12:33%20GMT&amp;st=janinadowney&amp;hm__ha=01_cce478d001b8ac63bb786c59fde22c79a002db5de53c6a390a4f6beca5f34c9d&amp;oneredir=1\" alt=\"Drugs bust: Police say Lillie Smith and her son Nathan Jones sold drugs at her Albuquerque apartment\" width=\"634\" height=\"286\" \/>Drugs bust: Police say Lillie Smith and her son Nathan Jones sold drugs at her Albuquerque apartment<\/div>\n<p>A district attorney&#8217;s office filed charges against the elderly woman, and a grand jury returned an indictment in February.<br \/>\nAfter her arrest in April she was bonded out of jail and is due to make her next court appearance in July.<br \/>\nPrevious court records show Smith pleaded guilty to drug charges in the 1990s, when she was in her 60s.<br \/>\nSmith is not the first pensioner to be arrested for drug dealing, but she may be the oldest. In April last year 73-year-old Darlene May was arrested in Oklahoma. She faces drug charges after police found 4lb of\u00a0marijuana and $276,000 in cash at the home she shared with her son.<\/p>\n<div>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2329828\/Elderly-woman-uses-oxygen-tank-charged-drug-trafficking-New-Mexico-apartment.html#ixzz2f8ZSblyx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2329828\/Elderly-woman-uses-oxygen-tank-charged-drug-trafficking-New-Mexico-apartment.html#ixzz2f8ZSblyx<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=MailOnline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MailOnline on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=DailyMail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DailyMail on Facebook<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>84-year-old tried to hide stash of cocaine in raid, police say Neighbors say she let son sell drugs so he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35,160],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portable-oxygen","tag-oxygen","tag-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5300,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/5300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}