A 32-year-old flight attendant who fled a
security check allegedly leaving behind 68 pounds of cocaine and her
Gucci shoes was arrested in New York on Wednesday March 23, NBC News reports.
Marsha Gay
Reynolds, a former Jamaican beauty queen, surrendered in New York
and was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in a
federal criminal complaint. Court papers did not say what airline
employed Reynolds, but a source told NBC News she worked for Jet Blue.
According to NBC News, the
suspect went on the lam Friday night after she showed up for a flight
out of Los Angeles International Airport and was selected for a random
screening.
The attendant who normally would get to bypass bag screening as a crew member —
became visibly nervous and made a phone call in a "foreign language,"
Transportation Security Administration officers told police.
As she was
being escorted to the front of the screening area, she kept trailing
behind and then suddenly bolted toward an elevator, dropping her roller
bags and taking off her designer shoes, authorities said.
She ran down an up escalator, out of
the building and disappeared. Inside her bag, police found 11 bricks of
cocaine wrapped in green plastic and placed into yellow or white
envelopes, clothing, a package of condoms and $5.38 in cash.
While an
investigation was underway, Reynolds was able to hop a Jet Blue flight
to the East Coast on Saturday, sources said. The TSA had scanned her
identification before she ran from Terminal 4 in LAX but were still in
the process of identifying her into the weekend, the sources said.
Sources
said that Reynolds was a runner-up in a Jamaican beauty. A woman with
the same name was listed in local news stories as the
third-place winner of the 2008 Miss Jamaica World pageant and a
runner-up in the 2007 Miss Jamaica Universe pageant.
See video of the
suspect during the contest below:
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