A California woman pleaded guilty to drug possession charges, United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced Thursday.
Joeva Elizabeth Williams, 39, of Sacramento, CA, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller to possession with intent to distribute marijuana and psilocybin (mushrooms). Williams faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine, according to the press release.
According to court documents, on July 22, 2022, Williams arrived at the Cyril E. King Airport on a flight from Houston, TX. While conducting an inbound inspection, a Customs and Border Protection canine alerted to the presence of narcotics in two suitcases that Williams later retrieved from the luggage carousel. Officers later recovered 37 vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana weighing 20 kilograms and 1,900 psilocybin pills.
