Jamaican policewoman pleads guilty to drug charges in Florida

A Jamaican police officer has pleaded guilty in federal district court in Fort Lauderdale to importing cocaine into the United States.

As part of her guilty plea, 42-year-old Shelian Cherine Allen admitted that on February 3, she arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on a flight from Montego Bay.

 An inspection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed that Allen had a package of cocaine inside her vagina and a package of cocaine inside each of her bra cups.  

Allen also had 90 pellets of packaged cocaine inside her stomach, which she had swallowed.  

CBP officers took Allen to a local hospital, where she expelled the 90 pellets.  In total, Allen had over 1,000 grams of cocaine on or inside her body when she entered the United States: about 200 in her vagina, about 143 grams in her bra, and about 690 grams inside her stomach.

United States District Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz II will sentence Allen on June 15, at 1:30p.m., in federal district court in Fort Lauderdale.  

Allen faces up to 40 years in federal prison.

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