09-18-2008, 03:34 PM
[SIZE="4"]Cocaine wigs land British women in Jamaican jail[/SIZE]
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica - A Jamaican judge sentenced two young British women to a year in prison Wednesday for attempting to smuggle cocaine off the island by hiding it in their wigs.
The two cousins from Derby, England, were arrested at the Montego Bay airport Sunday with more than two kilograms of cocaine stuffed in black socks that were stitched to the underside of the long, dark-haired wigs they were wearing.
Tanisha Samuels, 20, and Sherine Hardy, 18, claimed they were offered a combined US$7,000 to transport the drugs from Jamaica to London's Gatwick airport, police said.
The women were stopped and searched because they were acting suspiciously.
Hardy, who said she has relatives on the Caribbean island, testified that she had agreed to smuggle the drugs because she was facing financial trouble in England.
"I live on my own and have been mixed up with bad company," she said.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica - A Jamaican judge sentenced two young British women to a year in prison Wednesday for attempting to smuggle cocaine off the island by hiding it in their wigs.
The two cousins from Derby, England, were arrested at the Montego Bay airport Sunday with more than two kilograms of cocaine stuffed in black socks that were stitched to the underside of the long, dark-haired wigs they were wearing.
Tanisha Samuels, 20, and Sherine Hardy, 18, claimed they were offered a combined US$7,000 to transport the drugs from Jamaica to London's Gatwick airport, police said.
The women were stopped and searched because they were acting suspiciously.
Hardy, who said she has relatives on the Caribbean island, testified that she had agreed to smuggle the drugs because she was facing financial trouble in England.
"I live on my own and have been mixed up with bad company," she said.
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