Cocaine in hair weave: Woman sentenced to 28 months in prison

A Guyanese woman was sentenced to 28 months in prison on May 26 after pleading guilty to two counts of drug possession.

Linda Reynolds, 23, was charged before Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes with possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply and importation of dangerous drugs.

According to initial police reports, a Guyanese woman was arrested after she was discovered with two pounds of cocaine “taped to her weave” at the Bahamas’ Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) on Tuesday. The suspect had just arrived in the country on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Suriname. During the search officers allegedly found one taped package containing just over two pounds of cocaine concealed in a weave attached to her natural hair. While in court, Reynolds, a mother who is not employed, asked the court for mercy. The woman’s 4-year-old daughter is being looked after by a girlfriend in Suriname. The defendant had reportedly planned to take a 3-day trip. She had told the court that she had tried to find a job in Suriname but that her efforts were futile. She also told the court that a girlfriend had asked her to smuggle cocaine to Jamaica and that she would receive $2,000 for her services. The woman had managed to avoid detection at Suriname’s Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport and Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).