Marica Gay Reynolds, a former Jamaican beauty queen, and track star was caught trying to transport a little cocaine at the LAX airport. NOw I could care less about the coke for LA thrives on coke and used it like one uses flour for cooking everyday. What bothers me is that a sistah as fine as this was reduced to being a drug transporter and she should have been rich anyway. A former beauty queen and trackstar; WHAT HAPPENED?!? How did she get lured into making this very bad decision to be a part of this sordid operation? This is truly outrageous for this poor sistah was primed for success anyway! Again I ask, WHAT HAPPENED?!!? I'm calling on all African American businessmen and Jamaican ones too, we're gonna' have to stand up and be counted and provide support and opportunities for our people so that they won't be lured into making such terrible mistakes! God be with us and throw the whites out of our affairs so we can provide for our own people! Thank you Lord and be with our fallen sistah and do not allow the whites to crucify her for one little mistake!!!
Flight attendant and former Miss Jamaica World runner-up who 'fled LAX because she had two suitcases full of cocaine worth $3 MILLION is arrested at JFK'
- Marsha Gay Reynolds surrendered to federal authorities at John F. Kennedy International Airport
- LAX police soon after found 11 packages of cocaine wrapped in green cellophane and labeled, 'BIG Ranch' inside one of her bags
- On the streets of Los Angeles, Massino said the retail value of the cocaine could be as high as $3 million
A
JetBlue flight attendant who authorities say left behind 70 pounds of
cocaine worth up to $3 million after flinging off her heels and running
from security at Los Angeles International Airport was arrested
Wednesday in New York.
Marsha
Gay Reynolds surrendered to federal authorities at John F. Kennedy
International Airport, though it wasn't immediately clear how she
reached New York, federal officials said.
Reynolds was expected to be in federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday, according to U.S. Attorney's spokesman Thom Mrozek.
Flight
attendant: Marsha Gay Reynolds, former runner up for Miss Jamaica World
in 2008 (pictured), was arrested in New York on Wednesday. Police say
she left two suitcases filled with cocaine at security in LAX
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Security Administration officials asked Reynolds to step aside for a
random security screening Friday, authorities said.
Reynolds
went to a secondary screening area but quickly dropped her bag, ditched
a pair of Gucci heels and fled barefoot downward on an upward-moving
escalator, Marshall McClain, president of the union representing LAX
airport police officers, said Monday.
Reynolds was charged with cocaine possession with intent to distribute. It was unclear if she yet had an attorney.
Mrozek said prosecutors believe reports that Reynolds was a runner-up in Miss Jamaica World 2008.
New
York University lists a Marsha-Gay Reynolds as having been on the
school's 2004 women's track and field team, though it wasn't immediately
clear if that was the same Reynolds arrested Wednesday.
On Friday,
Reynolds arrived at an LAX checkpoint in Terminal 4 wearing jeans, heels
and a black suit jacket, carrying her 'known crew member badge,'
according to an FBI affidavit in support of the charge against Reynolds.
It wasn't immediately clear whether she was on duty at the time.
When
Reynolds was chosen for a random security screening, TSA Officer Jamie
Samuel said the flight attendant became nervous and began looking around
before pulling out her cellphone and making a call, according to the
affidavit.
Samuel
reported that Reynolds was talking on the phone in a foreign language
as she was being taken to a secondary screening area, the affidavit
says.
Once in the secondary screening area, TSA Officer Charles James asked for her identification.
'At this time, Reynolds dropped her carry-on luggage, removed her shoes and began to run away,' according to the affidavit.
James
saw Reynolds run down an upward-moving escalator and out of the
terminal, the affidavit says, adding that the officer didn't pursue her
because her abandoned luggage was his main concern.
LAX
police soon after found 11 packages of cocaine wrapped in green
cellophane and labeled, 'BIG Ranch' inside one of the bags Reynolds had
left behind, the affidavit says.
The
cocaine weighed just over 68 pounds. Wholesale, the drugs would be
worth about $750,000 in Los Angeles, said Special Agent Timothy Massino,
a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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