Shontol Mansfield was an outgoing passenger on a LIAT flight to Barbados when anti-narcotics agents at the Ogle airport spotted something suspicious in her luggage. The suspicious object turned out to be 500 grams (just over a pound) of cocaine.
The 32-year-old West Ruimveldt resident was being interrogated up to late last night, but people close to the investigation said that from the time of her arrest she was very co-operative.
The cocaine, had it landed in Barbados, would have fetched some US$6,000.