Cocaine-in-handbags accused gets $500,000 bail

Darren Harris Jnr

A week after being charged with trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country aboard a flight to the United States, 19-year-old Darren Harris Jnr was granted $500,000 bail.

Harris Jnr was charged after he and his father were held at the airport with quantities of cocaine, which were concealed in bags.

He is accused of trying to smuggle 1.176 kilogrammes of cocaine, which was found