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Jan 28, 2015 News
A Bermudian woman who was nabbed while attempting to smuggle a quantity of cocaine via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, (CJIA) Timehri last Saturday, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment.
Twenty–three year old, Njere Sharifa Fubler of 64 Roberts Avenue, HM 15 Bermuda, admitted to ingesting a total of 551 grammes of cocaine, when she appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, yesterday.
According to the allegation, on January 24, Fubler attempted to smuggle cocaine pellets, which she had ingested, onto an outgoing flight bound for the United States.
Police Prosecutor, Deniro Jones told the court that Fubler was scheduled to join Caribbean Airlines flight BW524 destined for John F. Kennedy International Airport, when a rank noticed that she was acting in a suspicious manner and requested to conduct a search on her luggage.
During the search, Jones said that the rank unearthed suspicious-looking pellets in the woman’s purse and upon further examination discovered that the pellets contained what appeared to be the illicit substance.
As a result, Fubler was subject to interrogation during which she admitted to swallowing cocaine pellets. The woman was subsequently rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where she excreted a total of 68 pellets after she was administered laxatives to assist with the process.
The drug was later weighed at Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Headquarters, Eve Leary, and Fubler was subsequently charged for the offence.
After entering a guilty plea, Fubler told the court that she has no local address and is self-employed; the woman said that she “fixes and sells electronics” for a living.
The Bermuda national was subsequently sentenced to serve four years in prison and fined $1,480,700; three times the street value of the drug.
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