3-25-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A JetBlue flight attendant who authorities say left behind 70 pounds of cocaine worth up to $3 million after flinging off her heels and running from security at Los Angeles International Airport was arrested Wednesday in New York.
Marsha Gay Reynolds surrendered to federal authorities at John F. Kennedy International Airport, though it wasn’t immediately clear how she reached New York, federal officials said.
It has been confirmed that Reynolds, 32, who appeared in federal court today in Brooklyn, was the second runner-up in the Miss Jamaica pageant in 2008, according to NBC News. Reynolds is an New York University grad who is a U.S. citizen with Jamaican heritage. She worked for JetBlue for the last six years and was working towards a nursing degree, NBC reported.
Although a New York judge approved a half a million dollar bail package secured by her mother and pastor’s homes, a final decision was delayed until tomorrow until California courts weigh in. Prosecutors want her in custody until she can be extradited to Los Angeles, but if bail is approved, she will be confined to her Queens home and to nursing classes, says NBC. An as yet unidentified alleged co-conspirator may have been trying to leave the U.S. but has not been captured yet.
“She a good girl who comes from a good family,” Alan Jennings, a Reynolds family spokesman said outside the courtroom. “She’s done everything right in her life up to this point. More to the story is going to come out.”
By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press
