A woman was yesterday sentenced to 56 months in jail after being found guilty of possession of cocaine that was stuffed into boulangers and intended to be placed on a flight to Toronto, Canada.
Bhanmattie Persaud was also fined $11,097,000, equivalent to the street value of the drug, at the conclusion of her trial before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Persaud, a 39-year-old mother of three, of Lot 460 Lusignan Grass Field, East Coast Demerara,