ST JAMES, Jamaica — One of the two government employees held at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay last week in connection with the seizure of 20.5 pounds of cocaine, was granted bail when she appeared in the St James Parish Court a short while ago.

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Latoya Hemmings, an employee of the Trelawny Municipal Corporation, was offered bail in the sum of $700,000. She was also told to surrender her travel documents and to report to the Duncans Police Station as conditions of the bail.

Her co-accused, Trevon Clayton, an employee of the St Ann Municipal Corporation was however remanded.

Both individuals face charges under the Dangerous Drugs Act after they were allegedly held with cocaine at the airport facility as they tried to leave the island on a flight destined to New York on Friday, January 16.

During a security screening, the two were accosted, searched and packages of cocaine were found in the luggage belonging to both individuals.

Both were detained and Clayton, it is said, admitted to ingesting cocaine pellets. He was taken to hospital where he reportedly expelled 82 pellets with the drug.

Both are scheduled to return to court on January 27.