This teen girl was arrested on serious drug trafficking charges. Surprisingly, her bail was only set at $39,000, and she was free only after being in custody for one day. Take a wild guess about what her father does for a living.
Sarah Furay was only 19 years of age when she got into some major trouble, making national headlines and earning herself quite the nickname. Authorities discovered the Texas teen with marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and ecstasy in her College Station apartment, however what is more shocking than that, is who her father is and what he does to make a living.
After Texas authorities executed a search warrant in 2015 after a tip, they found 31.5 grams of packaged cocaine, 29 tablets of ecstasy, 126 grams of marijuana, 60 doses of a drug related to LSD, an unverified amount of methamphetamine, two digital scales, packaging material, and a handwritten drug price list in Sarah’s residence, she was arrested on drug possession and trafficking charges.
Sarah was taken to the Brazos County Jail on three counts of manufacturing and delivery of a controlled substance and one count of possession — all serious felonies. But, she posted her measly $39,000 bail and was released after having spent only one day in custody, according to The Eagle.
That’s when it was discovered that Sarah Furay was the daughter of longtime Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Special Agent Bill Furay, who once headed up the federal agency’s office in Galveston, Texas, but reportedly worked for the DEA in Panama at the time of his daughter’s arrest, according to Fox News Insider. The Washington Times reported Bill Furay was a supervisory special agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency’s office in Houston at the same time.
Although it’s not quite clear which DEA office he was working for when Sarah was arrested, the DEA confirmed that she is the daughter of Bill Furay, a special agent who has spent more than 20 years on the force. “[T]he DEA confirmed that Sarah Furay, the daughter of DEA Special Agent Bill Furay, was arrested in College Station, TX on charges related to drug trafficking. The College Station Police Department is handling all investigative matters related to the charges. The Furay family is dealing with this private matter as best they can,” a statement read, according to The Washington Times.
Bill Furay (inset), the father of drug kingpin Sarah Furay, had a 20-year career with the DEA (stock photo, background) (Photo Credit: DEA via Daily Mail, Screen Capture/YouTube)
Bill Furay has had a successful career with the DEA, celebrating the success of a DEA operation code-named Agent Orange, which arrested 60 people reportedly associated with Mexico’s Sinaloa narcotics cartel, in 2010. Prior to that, Bill boasted the results of a two-year undercover joint investigation that dismantled a major drug trafficking organization in the Lake Jackson-Freeport area, according to Daily Mail.
At the time of Sarah’s arrest, multiple reports stated that he was serving as the DEA’s diplomatic representative at the U.S. ambassador’s office in Panama City, Panama. A more recent report by local news station KBTX-TV13, however, described Bill Furay as “a former Drug Enforcement Agency Supervisor in Beaumont.”
Either way, the girl, who was dubbed the “adorable drug kingpin” because of the happy-looking mugshot that followed her drug arrest in Texas, was the daughter of a man tasked with overseeing DEA operations to crack down on drug trafficking organizations. But, that’s not all.
Her most recent court appearance, years after her arrest, was just a status hearing, where lawyers have an opportunity to update a judge on the progress in a case and readiness for trial, according to KBTX-TV13. Another status hearing was scheduled for three months later. So, that’s three more months of freedom for Sarah Furay when others facing the same or even lesser charges would have been locked up by now.
“You don’t see many drug traffickers retire. Either they end up in prison, or they end up dead,” Mr. Furay said, five years prior to his daughter’s arrest. Apparently, the same rules don’t apply for Sarah, whose case is still dragging out years later, as she enjoys her freedom rather than facing the conviction and sentencing for four felony counts that could result in the “adorable drug kingpin” spending her life behind bars. Although it seemed odd at the time, now it seems to make sense that she smiled for her mugshot as if she didn’t have a care in the world.
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