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JetBlue flight attendant who ran from security after ditching 60lbs of cocaine at LAX to be freed from jail despite mandatory 10-year sentence
PUBLISHED: 18:40 EDT, 9 April 2018 | UPDATED: 07:42 EDT, 10 April 2018
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Marsha Gay Reynolds, 33, has been sentenced to time served after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine
A former JetBlue flight attendant now has some serious baggage.
Marsha Gay Reynolds ran from security in March 2016 after ditching 60 pounds of cocaine at Los Angeles International Airport.
The 33-year-old has been sentenced to time served after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine.
A judge Monday said her cooperation with prosecutors aided his decision to sentence Reynolds to time already served in custody.
Normally the charges carry a minimum mandatory sentence of 10-years.
She is likely to be released in the next few days and will then spend three years on supervised release, according to City News Service.
The Transportation Security Administration says Reynolds was selected for a random security screening at LAX.
Moments later, authorities said, Reynolds dropped her carry-on luggage, kicked off her heels, fled down an upward-moving escalator and out of the terminal.
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Reynolds ran from security in March 2016 after ditching 60 pounds of cocaine at Los Angeles International Airport. A judge Monday said her cooperation with prosecutors aided his decision to sentence Reynolds to time already served in custody
Flight attendant flees LAX leaving 70lbs cocaine in luggage
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Normally the charges carry a minimum mandatory sentence of 10-years. Pictured are the drugs that were found in her bag - which were estimated to be worth roughly $3million
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The Transportation Security Administration says Reynolds was selected for a random security screening at LAX. Moments later, authorities said, Reynolds dropped her carry-on luggage, kicked off her heels, fled down an upward-moving escalator and out of the terminal. Her mother is pictured leaving court in Brooklyn, New York in March 2016
The former Jamaican beauty queen and New York University track athlete was studying to be a nurse while working for JetBlue, her former attorney said.
She was a runner-up in the Miss Jamaica World 2008 pageant, which sends the country's representatives to Miss World contests.
In court Reynolds 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 US but can be randomly searched.
Read more: JetBlue flight attendant who ditched 60lbs of cocaine at LAX to be freed from jail | Daily Mail Online
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- Marsha Gay Reynolds was sentenced to time served in a drug possession and distribution conspiracy case
- In March 2016 she ran from security after 60 pounds of cocaine were discovered in her luggage
- The JetBlue flight attendant pleaded guilty last year to the charges last year
- Normally the charges carry a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years
- The amount of cocaine she was carrying was said to be worth roughly $3million
PUBLISHED: 18:40 EDT, 9 April 2018 | UPDATED: 07:42 EDT, 10 April 2018
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Marsha Gay Reynolds, 33, has been sentenced to time served after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine
A former JetBlue flight attendant now has some serious baggage.
Marsha Gay Reynolds ran from security in March 2016 after ditching 60 pounds of cocaine at Los Angeles International Airport.
The 33-year-old has been sentenced to time served after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine.
A judge Monday said her cooperation with prosecutors aided his decision to sentence Reynolds to time already served in custody.
Normally the charges carry a minimum mandatory sentence of 10-years.
She is likely to be released in the next few days and will then spend three years on supervised release, according to City News Service.
The Transportation Security Administration says Reynolds was selected for a random security screening at LAX.
Moments later, authorities said, Reynolds dropped her carry-on luggage, kicked off her heels, fled down an upward-moving escalator and out of the terminal.
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Reynolds ran from security in March 2016 after ditching 60 pounds of cocaine at Los Angeles International Airport. A judge Monday said her cooperation with prosecutors aided his decision to sentence Reynolds to time already served in custody
Flight attendant flees LAX leaving 70lbs cocaine in luggage
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Normally the charges carry a minimum mandatory sentence of 10-years. Pictured are the drugs that were found in her bag - which were estimated to be worth roughly $3million
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The Transportation Security Administration says Reynolds was selected for a random security screening at LAX. Moments later, authorities said, Reynolds dropped her carry-on luggage, kicked off her heels, fled down an upward-moving escalator and out of the terminal. Her mother is pictured leaving court in Brooklyn, New York in March 2016
The former Jamaican beauty queen and New York University track athlete was studying to be a nurse while working for JetBlue, her former attorney said.
She was a runner-up in the Miss Jamaica World 2008 pageant, which sends the country's representatives to Miss World contests.
In court Reynolds 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 US but can be randomly searched.
Read more: JetBlue flight attendant who ditched 60lbs of cocaine at LAX to be freed from jail | Daily Mail Online
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ehhhhh
Jackie Brown
: If you're black, than you know we don’t bring drugs into the country like that, especially not cocaine. She snitched on a bunch of white guys and some dudes last named escobar.
