RCMP
seeking to have Mia Rahaman deported
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newspaper reports
THE Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are reportedly outraged over the
sentence given to former Miss Guyana/Universe 2002, Mia Rahaman, for taking
cocaine into the country.
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MIA
RAHAMAN
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The former
Guyanese
beauty
queen, on February 18 last, in a Brampton, Ontario court,
pleaded guilty to importing 7.5 kilos of cocaine into Canada and was sentenced
to two years house arrest, in addition to 240 hours of community service.
The
Toronto Sun said the RCMP wanted Rahaman to go to prison and quoted Constable
Arlene Flynn as saying, "We wanted something to deter young people from
smuggling drugs."
Rahaman, who was Guyana’s delegate at the Miss Universe Pageant in Puerto Rico
in 2002, was nabbed at the Pearson International Airport outside of Toronto with
the drug valued at some CAD$1M in her suitcase and jar containing her personal
cosmetics.
She was
made to post CAD$5,000 bail along with CAD$20, 000 surety for her pre-trial
freedom.