Grady Judd just seized 64 pounds of fentanyl from the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels – enough to kill nearly 15 million people.
Now the same sheriff is back at the podium because a woman called 911 to complain about a traffic ticket and walked into his jail with 28 bags of fentanyl hidden inside her body.
He told the state of Florida exactly where they found those drugs – and the word he used has the internet losing its mind.
She Thought 911 Was a Complaint Line
It started with a roadblock in Lake Wales.
Deputies were directing traffic around utility crews working on power lines.
Gina Redding, 48, drove around the deputy blocking the road.
A second deputy at the other end stopped her and issued a traffic citation.
That’s when Redding made the worst decision of her day – she started following the deputy’s patrol car and dialed 911 to complain about the ticket.
“She decides, ‘I’ll just dial 911 because I don’t like this traffic ticket,'” Judd said.
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A second deputy responded to the misuse call, pulled Redding over again, and arrested her for illegally tinted windows.
Her car was impounded.
Before it was towed, deputies conducted a standard inventory search – and found marijuana inside.
The Body Scanner Did Not Miss a Thing
At the Polk County jail, Redding went through intake.
That includes a body scanner.
The scanner found 28 bags of fentanyl – concealed inside what Sheriff Judd called her “Virginia.”
Judd did not soften the delivery.
“We didn’t visit ‘Virginia’ any further, we just put her in jail,” he told reporters.
Redding told deputies she doesn’t deal fentanyl.
“She says she doesn’t deal fentanyl,” Judd said, “but it would certainly explain her conduct.”
She now faces felony trafficking in fentanyl, misuse of the 911 system, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and introducing contraband into a detention facility.
104 Democrats Voted to Let Her Walk
Here’s what makes this story bigger than one woman and one traffic stop.
In July 2025, Trump signed the HALT Fentanyl Act into law – permanently scheduling fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I and adding mandatory minimums for traffickers.
One hundred and four House Democrats voted against it.
Their argument: mandatory minimums are too harsh for fentanyl dealers.
Gina Redding is the person they were defending.
Not a sick addict caught with a personal supply – a trafficker who was carrying product inside her body, escalated a routine traffic stop into a 911 misuse call, and still had it on her when she walked through the jail door.
Grady Judd has watched this play out in Polk County for years.
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In June 2025, his detectives seized 64 pounds of fentanyl from the Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels – enough to kill 14.5 million people.
“We’ve seized enough drugs to kill everyone in the state of Ohio, or everyone in the state of Pennsylvania, or everyone in the state of Illinois,” Judd said at that press conference.
Four months later, he was back at the podium for more than 48 arrests after dismantling two trafficking networks operating with what he called “military-style precision.”
The product those cartels ship into Florida doesn’t move itself.
It moves inside people like Gina Redding – past traffic stops, through jail booking, and in front of body scanners that 104 Democrats wanted replaced with treatment programs.
Redding’s case is why every Florida jail needs one of those scanners.
Trump signed the law.
Judd enforces it.
And when he has to explain where deputies found a trafficking supply on a woman who called 911 over a citation, he says “Virginia,” puts her in jail, and moves on to the next press conference.
That’s the job.
Sources:
- Kennedy Owens, “Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says traffic stop led deputies to 28 bags of fentanyl in woman’s ‘Virginia,'” Florida Voice News, June 22, 2026.
- “Florida woman calls 911 over traffic ticket, deputies find 28 bags of fentanyl,” CBS12/Local12, June 22, 2026.
- “Grady Judd, AG Uthmeier detail takedown of fentanyl rings,” Fox 13 Tampa Bay, February 13, 2026.
- “Grady Judd: Record-breaking bust nets enough fentanyl to kill 14.5 million people,” Fox 13 Tampa Bay, June 24, 2025.
- “Governor Ron DeSantis Announces SAFE Program Delivers Record Seizures of Fentanyl,” Executive Office of the Governor of Florida, September 2, 2025.
- “S.331 – HALT Fentanyl Act,” Congress.gov, Became Public Law No. 119-26, July 16, 2025.
