American jailed, partner remanded over attempt to smuggle cocaine to US

By Shakisa Harvey

An American woman was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail after she confessed to having over 4.130 kilos of cocaine in a false bottom of her suitcase while being an outbound passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, destined for the United States.

Social worker Brianna Rodney, 25, an American citizen by birth, of Lot 2121 Westbury Court, Brooklyn 11225 USA, who had been in Guyana on four previous occasions before her last arrival on March 12, maintained her guilty plea even after Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry