A Jamaican woman on Friday begged a magistrate in The Bahamas for leniency before being sentenced to 14 months in prison for smuggling more than three pounds of drugs into the country.
Stacey Ann Harrow,37,was sentenced after pleading guilty to importation of dangerous drugs and one charge of possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.
The sentences are to run concurrently.
According to the prosecutor, Harrow, a mother of four, swallowed 3.4 pounds of marijuana in Jamaica before travelling to the Bahamas.
Once in the Lynden Pindling International Airport, the prosecutor said the Jamaican was taken into custody after officers suspected her of having drugs.
After initially denying that she had anything conspicuous on her, Harrow was made to undergo an X-ray at a hospital which revealed foreign objects in her stomach.
Harrow, who said she was to receive US$700 for transporting the marijuana, pleaded guilty to two charges.
The Jamaican pleaded for mercy from the Magistrate, admitting that while what she did was shameful, she has been unemployed for two years and is the sole provider for her four children, aged one, four, six and ten.
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