Influencer Jailed for Drug Smuggling

0:00On April 24, a 23-year-old Glasgow social media influencer named Ellie Cramsey just landed 16 months behind bars for smuggling. 17 kilograms of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport. The hall was worth around 150,000 pounds, hidden in a suitcase as she flew home from Thailand last April. She got stopped by border officers after landing from Paris on an Air France flight. The bag had her ex-boyfriends closed mixed in, and she admitted right away it wasn't hers to check. In court, Cramsey said her ex pressured her into carrying the drugs, painting a picture of a controlling relationship with the power imbalance. Her lawyer pushed that she had a lesser role, squeezed by someone much older. Sheriff Graham Watson bought some of that, calling her naïve and taking advantage of, but he stressed her choice was reckless and deserved a jail time. Anyway, this case shows how even sympathy for tough spots doesn't erase the risk of getting mixed up in drug runs. Hit-up consequences hit hard.