AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Two American women face up to 10 years in Japanese prison after alleged $1 million cannabis smuggling scheme
Tokyo police arrested two 25-year-old American women at Haneda Airport after they allegedly flew from New York with 66 pounds of cannabis hidden in their suitcases, and one suspect says she took the job for a free trip to Japan. Cartron Jamere Bourbon Castillo and Jocelyn Dizon Natividad Patrin arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on […] The post Two American women face up to 10 years in Japanese prison after alleged $1 million cannabis smuggling scheme appeared first on American Almanac .
Tokyo police arrested two 25-year-old American women at Haneda Airport after they allegedly flew from New York with 66 pounds of cannabis hidden in their suitcases, and one suspect says she took the job for a free trip to Japan. Cartron Jamere Bourbon Castillo and Jocelyn Dizon Natividad Patrin arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on September 5 carrying two suitcases that police say contained roughly 30 kilograms of dried cannabis divided among more than a dozen packages, the New York Post reported . The seized substance carried an estimated street value of 150 million yen, approximately $970,000. A Tokyo police spokesman told AFP that "cannabis-like dried plants were secretly stored" in the luggage and that the women "conspired with…Open