Woman charged over attempt to mail cocaine in nail files

Sandra Daniels

-was jailed in UK for drug trafficking

A mother of five, who was convicted and deported from England for narcotics trafficking, is back behind bars after being remanded to prison on a charge that she tried to traffick over 200 grammes of cocaine in salon products through the mail.

Sandra Daniels, 49, of Lot 2 Dennis Street, Sophia, was unrepresented when she made an appearance before Magistrate Judy Latchman of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. It is alleged that she, on May 8, at the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC), on Robb Street, had in her possession 274 grammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. She pleaded not guilty to the charge.

According to Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) Prosecutor Oswald Massiah, Daniels had gone to the post office with the intention of shipping a box to Spain. A perfunctory check was performed on the box and found that it contained a number of salon products, including false nails and nail files. A closer inspection