A US tourist will join his brother in Westgate, after smuggling drugs into Bermuda in an attempt to pay his brother’s drug debts.Carnell Jones, 39, from Chicago, was today jailed for two-and-a-half years.Magistrates’ Court heard that he was paid $7,000 to deliver cannabis resin to Bermuda inside plastic hangers.Jones’s American companion, Latrice Bell, was called “a very lucky woman” by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.The 28-year-old was ordered to pay $1000 for cannabis possession.The court heard that the two travelled to Bermuda on a cruise ship from Boston, arriving at Heritage Wharf, Dockyard, on June 12. Jones was paid in cash upon delivering an unknown quantity of drugs to a man in the Botanical Gardens in Paget.Jones attracted the suspicion of Western Union employees when he was unable to account for the $5,000 he was attempting to wire to his wife in the US.He and Bell purchased cannabis in Somerset and then returned to their cruise ship in Dockyard, where they were arrested the following day.A total of $7,147 was found in Jones’s cabin, along with the broken remains of the hangers; Bell’s cabin contained the drugs purchased in Bermuda.Jones was yesterday charged with conspiring in Bermuda and elsewhere to import drugs, between a date unknown and June 12.He was further charged with possession of cannabis resin with intent to supply and attempting to remove property from Bermuda which he knew to be the proceeds from a criminal act.An emotional Bell, seated in the courtroom, admitted to possessing the four grams of cannabis, which police found in their search of her cruise ship cabin on June 13.Crown counsel Cindy Clarke said that Jones brought Bell along from Chicago on an all-expenses-paid vacation. After flying to Boston, the couple collected five plastic hangers at a Boston hotel.Ms Clarke told the court the smuggling deal was hatched in order to pay for debts left over from Jones’s brother, who is incarcerated in Bermuda. Although no drugs were recovered, Ms Clarke said the hangers were similar to those used in a case in which 954.3 grams of cannabis resin had been brought into the Island.That amount is identical to that of a January 27 case in which a 54-year-old Chicago man was caught at LF Wade International Airport with five hangers containing the drugs.Mr Warner jailed Jones for two-and-a-half years for conspiring to import the drugs and one year for attempting to wire the cash out of the Island. The sentences are to be served concurrently.Bell was ordered to pay her $1,000 fine immediately.