Grandma Sentenced To 27 months In Prison For Trying To Smuggle Heroin-Filled Fish Into The US

  A Ghanaian woman, 64, has been convicted for attempting to smuggle drugs into the US and sentenced to 27 months in prison by a New York City court. According to the New York Daily News, Rose Amanor, who claims her son duped her into carrying the bag into the city, was arrested at Kennedy […] The post Grandma Sentenced To 27 months In Prison For Trying To Smuggle Heroin-Filled Fish Into The US appeared first on Woman.NG. 

after disembarking on a flight from Amsterdam last year and a search revealed she was travelling with three kilograms of heroin stuffed inside a haul of dry fish.

While her lawyers begged for mercy and a short sentence so she could return to Africa because of her advanced age and poor health, the Federal Judge, Eric Vitaliano, declined saying she had told ‘incessant number of fishy stories’ and pointing out that if Mrs Amour had not been intercepted, the drugs would have wreaked havoc on young people.

He said:
“I find it totally incredible that Mrs. Amanor didn’t know what it was that she was doing.It certainly was a disrespect for the law, sitting in this courtroom and spinning this incredible tale under oath.”
Amanor claimed she could not speak English and begged the judge through the help of an interpreter to have mercy on her so she can go home to her family.