CANU nabs 19-year-old female coke swallower

Jul 08, 2018 News

— secures 279 pellets, arrests two following East Coast raid

Just four days after a mother of two tried to board a plane with cocaine pellets in her stomach, a 19-year-old female has been nabbed while attempting a similar ruse.

The seized cocaine pellets.

A release from the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) said that the teen was arrested on Friday while she was an outgoing passenger on Flight BW 526 destined for JFK International Airport.
She was escorted to a city hospital and has since excreted 44 pellets suspected to contain cocaine. She remains hospitalized and under observation.
“This interdiction then led to a CANU Operation at a location on East Coast Demerara last evening where some 279 suspected cocaine filled pellets were seized. Three persons were arrested. Two suspects remain at large,” the release stated. Mom gets three years for cocaine at CJIA.
Last Friday, Natasha Blair, 37, a cosmetologist, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for attempting to smuggle a quantity of cocaine via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, (CJIA) Timehri.
She was arrested on Monday.
Blair, of 92 Grove/Diamond, East Bank Demerara, had admitted to ingesting and inserting a total of 532 grams of cocaine.
When she appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Blair, a mother of two, stated, “I’m very sorry for what I did and I’m sorry for putting my children and family through this. I did it to provide for my children.”
According to the allegation, on July 2, last at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, she attempted to smuggle cocaine pellets, which she ingested and inserted in her vagina. She was intending to board a flight bound for New York.
Blair, who was travelling with an 11-month old baby was scheduled to board Caribbean Airlines flight BW726 destined for John F. Kennedy International Airport.
It was reported that when Blair checked in her luggage at Caribbean Airline counter, a CANU rank acting on information, approached her and informed her of his suspicion that she had ingested and inserted narcotics.
Blair was cautioned and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where an x-ray was conducted. It revealed foreign objects in her stomach and pelvic area.
The prosecutor told the court that the woman was admitted at the institution and during the period of July 2 and July 4, she excreted 32 pellets.
It was disclosed that the pellets found in the woman stomach weighed 322 grams while the object in her pelvic area weighed 210 grams.
The prosecutor added that while at the hospital, the woman made several oral statements indicating that she was trafficking the narcotics to take care of her two young children.
Sandiford went on to tell the court that based on additional information received from the woman, further investigation into the matter is ongoing.
She was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and fined $1.1M.
CANU is now searching for the father of the woman’s child, Sherwin Stoby, also known as Kong. His last known address was 87 Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown.
Anyone knowing his whereabouts is asked to contact CANU on 592-227-3507.