COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Drug Enforcement Administration has confirmed that the teen who was arrested for drugs and whose smiling mugshot went viral is the daughter of a DEA agent.
NBC affiliate KAGS received a statement from the DEA, the agency's public affairs officer, Barbara Carreno said, "the 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."
College Station police arrested Furay on Nov. 6, after they obtained a warrant to search her apartment. According to a police report, officers found more than 31 grams of packaged cocaine, 126 grams of high grade marijuana, 29 Ecstasy tablets, methamphetamine and 60 doses of a drug similar to LSD.
Her father, Bill Furay, currently works as a supervisory special agent at the DEA's Houston Division. Furay chose not to comment, saying only that it is a "personal matter."
Furay's mugshot went viral and was named as "having the happiest mugshot in America."
She faces three counts of manufacturing and delivery of a controlled substance and one count of drug possession.