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A former beauty queen — turned JetBlue flight attendant pleaded guilty Monday to taking part in a cross-country drug smuggling operation that was foiled when she turned into Usain Bolt at Los Angeles International Airport and abandoned a suitcase loaded with 60 pounds of cocaine per CBS News.
Marsha Gay Reynolds, a former Jamaican beauty queen and New York University track athlete, faces a mandatory 10-year prison term when sentenced March 3 in federal court on a single count of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine.
Reynolds, 32, acknowledged earning thousands of dollars to help smuggle drugs and money through airport security at LAX and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York by using her “known crew member” status to breeze past security and then transfer the contraband to a co-conspirator.
Airline employees with the clearance can bypass typical screening, even during personal travel in the U.S., but can be randomly searched.
When she was pulled aside for screening March 18, she flung off her high heels and ran down an upward-moving escalator out of the terminal. Authorities said the cocaine was worth about $3 million.
She will now likely turn informant — as an investigation into a larger drug ring is ongoing.
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