Canadian drug mule says she made cocaine cruise a vacation
SYDNEY, Australia — A Canadian woman told an Australian court on Wednesday that her only role in a plot to smuggle cocaine worth $16 million into Sydney was to make the luxury cruise ship operation look like a vacation.
Three Canadians have pleaded guilty in the New South Wales state District Court to smuggling 95 kilograms (209 pounds) of the drug in their luggage in a seven-week cruise in 2016 from Britain to Ireland, the United States, Bermuda, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile then Australia,
Melina Roberge, 24, appeared in the court for a sentencing hearing on Wednesday.
A date for her to be sentenced will be set next week. She was to stand trial last month, before she changed her plea to guilty.