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Cocaine in shoes woman jailed for 4 years
A woman expressed remorse yesterday when she made her appearance before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charge of illegal drug possession.
However, that did not keep her out of jail where she will spend the next four years.
The accused who was unrepresented pleaded guilty.
Althea Jhingore
According to special Prosecutor Oswald Massiah from the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit, on June 4, Althea Jhingoree, was an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport via BW484 flight to Jamaica.
The defendant was then approached by a CANU officer on duty who insisted on checking her luggage.
Jhingoree told the officer that she was going on vacation after the officer found that her suitcase contained ten pairs of ladies shoes.
The discovery of those shoes came as a surprise to the officer, so he took out a pair of shoes and observed them closely. He saw that something was ‘funny’ about the heels of the shoes; he then took an object and pierced the heels of the shoes and noticed a white substance which seemed to be cocaine emerging them.
Massiah told the court that the substance was tested and positively determined to be cocaine. The defendant was then arrested and taken down to Criminal Investigations Department headquarters along with the ten pairs of shoes.
Massiah reported that Jhingoree told the CANU agents that the shoes were given to her by an in-law, and in her determination to prove that she was telling the truth, she carried ranks to West Bank Demerara to locate the individual. However the trip was futile.
The guilty woman in her plea for leniency from the Magistrate told the court that she is sorry for what she had done and that she was gainfully employed as a waitress serving fish and chips.
She also informed the court that she has no previous convictions.
The court was told that on June 4, last, Jhingoree who resides at 119 Second Street, Craig, East Bank Demerara, had in her possession two kilograms of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
Before the tense and crammed court room, Jhingoree was sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined $30,000.
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