A DISABLED WOMAN is facing time in prison for attempting to export ganja to Barbados recently.
The accused woman Sylvia Headley a 52 year -old housewife from Montego Bay, St. James was held at the Norman Manley Airport after 4 kg (9 lbs) of the illegal drug was found in her luggage.
Headley appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday where she was granted bail in the sum of $200,000 with one or two sureties. She was asked to surrender her travel documents and a stop order was issued. She is to report to the Mount Salem police station Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays between 6 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Allegations against Headley are that on Friday November 4 at 1:45 p.m., she checked in to board outgoing Air Jamaica flight JM94 destined to Barbados when her luggage was searched and 10 rectangular packages, all wrapped in blue and black carbon paper and brown masking tape each containing compressed vegetable matter resembling ganja, were found.
Headley's attorney pleaded with the court to grant her bail because of her disability, a leg condition requiring her to use crutches. After contemplating the Resident Magistrate Martin Gayle granted the request.
Headley is to return to court on November 30.
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