PORTLAND — A Rumford woman, who police said stuffed bags of cocaine and fentanyl down her pants at a Lewiston traffic stop, will remain in jail until she can be admitted to drug recovery home, a judge ruled Thursday.

Kristi Harting, 46, appeared in U.S. District Court dressed in a Strafford County (New Hampshire) jail suit, accompanied by federal marshals.

Harting had hoped to be released from custody and returned to her Rumford apartment until a bed opened up at a sober house.

But U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Frink Wolf denied Harting’s request, reasoning, in part, that Harting had admitted to police she had been buying and reselling narcotics.

“That’s a big deal,” Wolf said.

Harting is charged with distribution and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million.

On July 6, Lewiston police stopped a 2017 Audi sedan after officers learned the car’s plates didn’t match its registration, according to an affidavit written by Kurt Ormberg, special agent at the FBI.

Officers reported they could see a glass pipe with white residue in the pocket of one of the car doors, Ormberg wrote.

A dog called to the scene detected drugs in the car.

Officers searched the car for drugs and searched Harting and her passenger for any weapons.

One officer noticed a “bulge” in Harting’s pants and asked what it was.

“At that point, Harting provided the officer with two bags of powder, which the officer suspected were cocaine and fentanyl,” Ormberg wrote.

Further analysis determined that the bags contained roughly 36 grams of cocaine and 103 grams of fentanyl, he wrote.

In an interview with police, Harting said that, at the time she was pulled over, her passenger had given her the two bags of drugs and told her to hide them, so she stuffed them down her pants, Ormberg wrote.

Harting also said she “regularly served as a runner for drug dealers, transporting drugs and money between Maine and Massachusetts in exchange for payment distribution quantities of cocaine, which she both consumed and resold,” Ormberg wrote.