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Cruise passengers charged with drug smuggling
Four women have been charged with attempting to smuggle cocaine into the US aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
A criminal complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court in Florida alleging Lakisha Abney, Shawnta Aiken and Ciera Bryant from Washington, D.C., and Shenique Milbourne of Fort Washington, MD, carried six kilos of cocaine hidden in their underclothes as they disembarked the ship in Port Canaveral on May 15.
Milbourne admitted to investigators she accepted the offer of a free cruise in exchange for smuggling the cocaine into the US, according to USA Today’s Florida edition.
The drop was made in Jamaica during a port call by Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas.
The cruise also included calls in Haiti, Grand Cayman and Mexico.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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