A 76-year-old woman is arrested by Jacksonville authorities for selling crack cocaine. The woman is booked on charges of possession and sale of a controlled substance.

Allegedly, the woman was selling crack using her purse. She would put the drugs inside and lower them by rope from her second-floor window.The suspect, Minnie Perlotte Collins, who has no previous record in Jacksonville, is accused of selling $20 worth of crack in a police sting and has since been released on $10,000 bail.Police say they found a gun and ammunition in Collins' house, as well as a purse attached to a rope next to her bed.

Customs agents inspecting a shipment of plantains thought some of the green bananas seemed unusually hard and cut them open, finding more than 750 pounds of cocaine stuffed inside what turned out to be phony fruit.

Smugglers molded the plantains out of glass fiber, filled them with cocaine and painted them to look like the real fruit, a large, green member of the banana family popular in the Caribbean and Latin America.

William Hawley had been on the run since May 10 when he managed to escape from a Martin Correctional Institution work crew and got rid of his prison clothing.

He then hitched a ride with Charlotte Yoder, telling her his wife was having a baby, his car broke down and he needed a ride to the hospital.