THE DAD of a Brit beautician facing up to 60 years in jail in the US after allegedly smuggling £3.5million worth of cocaine has insisted she is “only guilty of stupidity”.

John Hall, 59, defended his daughter Kim, 28, after she was detained at Chicago’s O’Hare airport as she was waiting for her connecting flight to Manchester.

The dad said she was offered the free holiday by people she met on an earlier trip to Portugal.

And he insisted all she is guilty of is “stupidity and naivety” as they desperately wait for news.

John said that she is “petrified” – and that at first she could barely speak to her family through floods of tears after the arrest.

The dad is convinced that Kim would have been “forced” to carry the drugs “without a shadow of a doubt”.

John told The Sun: “She’s not a drug smuggler.

“She was told that it would be money she was carrying. They got her phone and threatened her family and that’s why she did it.

“She’d been to Portugal with a friend and met people over there who contacted her when she was back saying they were into real estate in Mexico and she could go for a free holiday.

“Her friend declined but she said she would go.

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31038866/dad-brit-drug-mule-cocaine-prison/

GREER, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office said they seized approximately $2 million worth of cocaine in the county’s largest-ever residential cocaine bust.

On Oct. 7, Spartanburg County deputies, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Greenville Upstate Carolinas Border Enforcement Task Force executed a search warrant at a home on Stirrup Court in Greer.

The home was unoccupied but investigators found 43 kilograms of suspected cocaine along with $419,000 in cash.

“This is the single largest seizure of cocaine from a residence in the history of Spartanburg County,” a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said.

Deputies have developed a suspect in the case and said charges are forthcoming. The investigation remains active and ongoing.

https://www.foxcarolina.com/2024/10/10/record-breaking-amount-cocaine-seized-upstate-bust/