courtesy of 22nd Judicial District Attorney's Office
32-year-old Precious Hicks of Virginia was sentenced to 35 years in prison after being found guilty of drug trafficking charges Wednesday. Hicks was arrested in January of 2023 after she and her boyfriend were pulled over traveling on I-12. St. Tammany Parish Assistant District Attorney Tiffany Dover said Highway Enforcement found marijuana in open view and several boxes of Fruity Pebbles cereal…
“They were able to do a search of the vehicle where inside of the cereal boxes they found 7,886 pills that, at the time, looked like MDMA or ecstasy pills.”
The boxes of cereal were determined to contain almost 8,000 methamphetamine pills weighing over 4 pounds. During a formal police interview Hicks and her boyfriend admitted they had purchased the pills in Texas with the intent of selling them back in Virginia. Dover says this is what the Highway Enforcement Unit is there for…
“Because I-12 and I-10 are major trafficking corridors, people come from out of state to go to Texas, which is closer to the Mexico border, to buy drugs.”
Hicks’s boyfriend plead guilty prior to the trial and without a criminal history, received a probation sentence. Dover says the judge considered Hicks’s criminal history of firearm, assault, larceny, fraud, forgery, drug, ad prostitution convictions when passing down the 35-year sentence…
“Ms. Hicks had an extensive criminal history. She had multiple convictions out of the state of Texas as well out of the state of Virginia. She also had a criminal history out of the state of Virginia.”
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