The jury reached its unanimous verdict before Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe after nearly five hours of deliberation, and she was dismissed from the court.[1] She arrived on an Air Canada flight from Toronto on 20 June 2025 and was stopped by customs at LF Wade International Airport after her checked suitcase was scanned and showed anomalies.[2] A customs officer, Ryan Marshall, told the court he saw her head straight for the baggage belts and the exit, so sent her for secondary inspection.[2]

Officers cut off the case’s combination lock because she said she did not know the code, and found 29 heat-sealed packages containing 12,876g of cannabis.[2] The suitcase held 12,876 grams of cannabis, which prosecutors valued at $1.3 million on the island.[1] Prosecutor Khadija Beddeau argued she acted as a drug courier, telling the jury she was burdened with debt approaching $20,000 and had been offered $7,000 by a man called Anton to carry the case into Bermuda.[1]

Her defence counsel, Susan Mulligan, argued she believed the luggage contained designer clothes and had no knowledge of the drugs.[1] The trial was her second in the Supreme Court for the offences, the first having ended with the jury discharged.[1] When she first appeared in Magistrates’ Court in June 2025, Magistrate Craig Attridge remanded her in custody to the August arraignments.[3] A Toronto Sun account of the trial reported that 57 fingerprints were found on the heat-sealed bags and that none of the prints analysed matched her.[4]