Bahamas: Two elderly women fined for trying to smuggle marijuana into a prison
Two women have admitted trying to smuggle an ounce of marijuana to an inmate.
Wendy Smith, 63, and Chavon Johnson, 64, pleaded guilty almost three years after committing the crime.
The women agreed to conceal the contraband in a plate of food intended for a male inmate at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services. The prosecutor, Inspector Timothy Bain, told the court.
Johnson drove Smith to the prison on September 6, 2018, and Smith took the food inside.
However, the plan was foiled when a corrections officer found the drugs while searching the food.
As a result, Smith and Johnson were charged with conspiracy to possess dangerous drugs to supply and possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.
Magistrate Samuel McKinney fined Johnson, the plot's mastermind, $3,500 or nine months in prison.
Smith, who took the drugs into the prison, was fined $2,500 or nine months in prison.
Additionally, McKinney bound the women over to be of good behaviour for two years. A breach of the bound over would incur a $400 fine or a nine-month prison sentence.
When dawn Miller-Frazer appeared for the convicts.
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