CMC – The British woman who was held earlier this week, attempting to smuggle millions of dollars (Jamaican currency) worth of cocaine out of Jamaica, has been charged.
According to the Narcotics Police, Tennia Shawntay Clarke-Johnson, 22, of Culvert Road, London, England, was charged on Thursday, four days after she was nabbed at Sangster International Airport in the western parish of St. James, in possession of nearly four pounds of cocaine.
The police report that Clarke-Johnson checked in at the airport for a flight destined for London Gatwick and during a search of her luggage, the cocaine, with a street value of J$7.6 million, was found concealed in Jamaican craft items.
She’s booked to appear before the St. James Parish Court on Wednesday, March 6.
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