For the second time in two months, a girl was arrested with roughly 70 lbs. of marijuana at Boston's Logan Worldwide Airport earlier than a flight to the UK, prosecutors mentioned Tuesday.
Fareedat Folunsho, a 19-year-old from London, was arrested Sunday evening as she tried to return to the nation, in accordance with the Suffolk District Lawyer's Workplace. Customs and Border Patrol brokers seized the marijuana earlier than the flight.
In a Boston court docket, Folunsho was ordered to carry $1,500 bail on a drug-trafficking cost. She is due again in court docket on Could 21; it was not instantly clear if he had an legal professional who might communicate to the costs.
Prosecutors mentioned the marijuana she was carrying would have a UK road worth of round $350,000. Massachusetts regulation permits folks over 21 to have as much as 10 ounces of marijuana of their residence, however solely to hold as much as one ounce in public.
Folunsho's arrest comes a number of weeks after 28-year-old Nalexus Palmer was arrested at Logan Airport, allegedly with 74 lbs. of vacuum-sealed baggage of marijuana in two suitcases. She was ordered held on $3,000 bail and is due again in court docket on Could 24.
