Crime & Safety
Carnival Passengers Arrested on Pot Charges
Georgia women arrested in Bermuda for smuggling marijuana resin.
Two Georgia women who traveled to Bermuda last week aboard the Charleston-based Carnival Fantasy, have been arrested on charges they conspired to smuggle marijuana resin, according to the Royal Gazette newspaper.
Two American women were remanded in custody yesterday on charges they conspired to import more than $400,000 of cannabis resin.
Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner remanded both defendants into custody until October 25
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The newspaper reported that Alloah Jatan Releford, from Temple, Ga., and Latoya Nicole Powell, 27, from Marietta, Ga., were arrested.
Read the full story. The Fantasy returns to Charleston today and departs for five-day Bahamas cruise.
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