A nineteen-year-old who was busted with 119 cocaine pellets in her stomach was today sentenced to three years in prison. She was also fined $1.4 million.
The woman, Anisha Hardy appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and confessed to the crime. Hardy, a resident of South Ruimveldt confessed that on July 6 at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport she trafficked 702 grams of cocaine. The young woman was unrepresented at the time of her sentence.
Konyo Sandiford, Customs Anti Narcotics Unit Prosecutor told the court that Hardy an outgoing passenger to New York was stopped by a female CANU officer acted on information that the young woman had ingested cocaine.
Hardy was taken to a City Hospital where an x-ray showed the foreign objects in her stomach. Sandiford said within three days the teenager had excreted 119 pellets. She named the persons who recruited and gave her the drugs. The authorities are now in search of those persons.