Busy weekend for cocaine smugglers at Gatwick Airport
03.06.09
Four people were arrested in separate incidents at Gatwick Airport over the weekend, after they were caught carrying a total of £280,000 worth of cocaine. Three women and one man were stopped at Gatwick Airport, and found to have seven kilos of the class A drug between them. One of the women had tried to smuggle over a kilo hidden under her wig.
The smuggling attempts were halted by officers from the UK Borders Agency on Saturday and Sunday (May 30 and May 31), when the four people came into the airport on separate flights. Alisha Youngblood, 27 of London was stopped on May 30 as she arrived on a flight from Jamaica. When searched, officers found one kilo of cocaine with an estimated street value of £40,000.
Mack Andrew Hamilton Graham, 28, of St Lucia arrived on a flight from Barbados on the same day carrying two kilos of the drug. Chermisa Lisa Daniel, 32, from St Lucia, was arrested after officers found one kilo of cocaine hidden under her wig after arriving on a flight from St Lucia, via Antigua on Sunday. Finally, Nigerian-born Bisi Bukola Fashina, 50, was caught carrying three kilos of cocaine in her bags.
All four were immediately arrested and have appeared in front of Crawley Magistrates' Court, and have future court dates scheduled for later this month.
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