NEW YORK: The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says an arriving passenger on a flight from Guyana was “looking to bake more than just a cake” as customs officers at John F Kennedy International Airport here discovered cocaine in baking powder in her suitcase
Officers stopped Alizah Zaneshia Henry, a United States citizen, as she arrived on a flight from Georgetown, Guyana, via Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
During the course of the inspection, CBP officers removed one of several plastic bags labelled as Champion Baking Powder from her checked suitcase.
Henry was escorted to a private search room where the baking powder was probed and tested positive for cocaine that weighed 22 pounds.
She was arrested for importing a controlled substance and was turned over to US Homeland Security Investigations.
She now faces US federal narcotics smuggling charges, and will be prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office in the US Eastern District Court of New York.
