Seventy-one-year-old woman jailed 18 months in NY for carrying cocaine from Guyana

A seventy-one-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to importing cocaine into the US from Guyana has been jailed for 18 months by a New York Court.

Olive Fowler was held on April 11, 2015 at the JFK Airport in New York with cocaine in a girdle after arriving on a flight from Georgetown, Guyana.

On July 15, 2015 Fowler pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom to a two-count indictment of