A Montego Bay student, who tried to smuggle cocaine while going overseas to sit an exam, was fined and confined when she appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court this week.

Convicted is 21-year-old Kikimo Chung of Catherine Hall.

Reports are that at about 2:40 pm on November 4, Chung was stopped and searched at the security checkpoint as she was about to board an American Airlines flight destined for New York,

Four packages containing cocaine, weighing a total of one pound, were found in the pair of shoes she was wearing.

In court this week, her attorney George Thomas admitted that his client has no reasonable excuse for attempting to smuggle the drug. But he asked that presiding judge Paulette Williams be lenient with his client based on her age, the fact that she is a student, and that she had cooperated with the police.

Judge Williams told Chung that she must have known better, and subsequently sentenced her to six months in jail. The young student was also told to pay a fine of $100,000 or spend four months in jail for possession of the drug. She was also slapped with additional fine of $150,000 or six months for the dealing charge.

If the fines are not paid, the sentences will run consecutively.