PATRIMA Nima Isaacs, 19, was on Wednesday sent to jail for three years and ordered to pay a fine of $1.8 million after she was convicted for trying to traffic cocaine, which she stashed in sanitary pads she was wearing and in the handles of her handbag.She was busted with the cocaine, weighing some one pound, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Sunday. She was about to board a flight to the United States.

The teen confessed to City Magistrate, Leron Daly that the cocaine belonged to her and that she intended to traffic the prohibited drug.

Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) Prosecutor, Konyo Sandiford-
Thompson led the facts in court and contended that Isaacs on the day in question was an outgoing passenger on a Caribbean Airline flight BW 526 destined for JFK International Airport, United States.

Isaacs was stopped while at the airport scanner and a search was conducted by CANU ranks on her carry-on hand bag. The cocaine was found concealed in the handles of the woman’s multicolored straw bag.

The ranks became suspicious and conducted a full body search on the woman and found a plastic parcel of cocaine in the form of a sanitary napkin between Isaacs’s legs. She was taken to the CANU headquarters, where the drug was weighed in her presence.

“I know that I did a wrong act and I’m very sorry; I will never do this again,” Isaacs told the court, as she begged for leniency.

The prosecutor urged the Magistrate to consider the fact the Isaacs had assisted the Police with further investigation to arrest the recruiter who solicited her to fetch the drugs.

Magistrate Daly, in her sentence, considered that the teen is pregnant, while at the same time placing weight on the seriousness of the offence and the manner in which the drug was concealed