(Michigan City, IN) - A suspected good sized drug dealer from La Porte is custody.

 

Monica Del Real, 25, allegedly was found with large amounts of fentanyl and methamphetamine during a traffic stop last month in the area of Interstate 94 and U.S. 421.

 

Police said she was pulled over after recognized by an officer as having warrants out for her arrest by La Porte Police and no driver’s license.  Nearly $5,000 in cash was also found in her purse lying on the floorboard of the vehicle.

 

After posting bond, a warrant was issued several days later for her arrest on the drug related charges. She was taken into custody just recently and held in the La Porte County Jail on $50,000 bond

 

The two drug dealing charges against Del Real are each Level 2 felonies, which carry a sentencing range of 10 to 30 years.