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#3435: New York court officer caught with cocaine in Haiti (fwd)
From:nozier@tradewind.net
WIRE:05/02/2000 14:23:00 ET
New York court officer caught with cocaine in
Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A New York police official was arrested
at Haiti's international airport trying to smuggle cocaine onto a
plane bound for New York, police said Tuesday. Jessie Mae Thompson, 35,
a New York court officer, had 4.2 kilograms of cocaine taped to her
body when she was nabbed Friday, said police spokesman Jean-Dady
Simeon. She told police it was her 15th voyage smuggling drugs from
Haiti. Thompson offered police the names and addresses of several
American and Haitian drug trafficking associates, Simeon said. About 14
percent of the drugs smuggled from Colombia to the United States each
year passes through Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic, U.S.
drug officials estimate.