Bahamians sentenced to 4 years in jail in Turks & Caicos

Read storyTURKS AND CAICOS: A Bahamian couple was sentenced to four years jail time after pleading guilty to cocaine smuggling.

Spence Dean, 39 and his girlfriend, Mary Sawh asked for leniency after admitting to taping more than four kilograms of cocaine to their bodies.

But Magistrate Clifton Warner gave them each four years, one year shy of the maximum.

The couple were stopped by police trying to board a Bahamasair flight at Providenciales International Airport.

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