Influencer Jailed for Cannabis Smuggling

0:00On April 24, a 23-year-old influencer from Glasgow just got hit with a 16-month jail sentence for trying to smuggle 17 kilograms of cannabis into the UK. Ellie Cramsey, who's big in the local nightlife and runs her own beauty business, got caught at Edinburgh Airport on April 16, 2000. 25. After flying in from Thailand, be a Paris. Border Force officers found the drugs backing sealed in her suitcase worth up to 151,000 pounds. She flew on an Air France flight and claimed her ex-boyfriend pressured her into carrying the bag, which also had women's clothes to throw off. Suspicion. Cramsey pleaded guilty to being involved in supplying the Class B drug, and her lawyer argued she played a smaller role under influence from an aunt. Older, controlling guy, who never showed up at the airport. In court, the sheriff called her actions reckless, but accepted she was naive and taken advantage of due to a power imbalance in the relationship.

1:00He reviewed her background report and had no choice but to lock her up, even with her early guilty plea. Meanwhile, drugs smuggling by air has exploded lately. National crime agency stats show a rest jump from just 20 passengers in 2022 to 745 in 2000. 24, and already 680 in the first 9 months of 2025. This case shines a light on how these operations are pulling in everyday folks like influencers, but the laws cracking down hard as the numbers keep, climbing. Stay sharp out there.