Traffic stop leads to drug bust, recovery of stolen bank cards, Pines police say
A Friday night traffic stop turned drug bust for a Pembroke Pines woman pulled over for driving unsafely, according to the Pembroke Pines Police Department.
The driver of a blue Mercedes-Benz van — 39-year-old Natalie Gonzalez of Hialeah — was stopped on Feb. 20 by a PPPD officer for “careless driving,” the agency announced the following day via an Instagram post.
Gonzalez, who was looking down at her cellphone while driving, swerved into the officer’s lane and almost sideswiped him before being pulled over, her arrest report sayd.
That’s when police discovered her driving rap sheet, marred by “an active warrant for traffic-related offenses,” added PPPD.
Jail records show she’s wanted in Pinellas County for two counts of leaving the scene of a crash involving property damage from December in St. Petersburg.
Inside Gonzalez’s car during the February stop was illicit paraphernalia — approximately 60 Xanax bars and pills, 1.4 grams of heroin and several stolen bank cards, police say — landing her extra charges.
Police arrested Gonzalez and booked her into Broward Main Jail, where she spent “her Friday night behind bars,” reads PPPD’s Instagram post.
She was being held at the North Broward Bureau detention center in Pompano Beach on a $2,026 bond as of Feb. 24, jail records show.
This story was originally published February 23, 2026 at 11:05 AM.
