An American tourist will join his brother in Westgate after smuggling drugs into Bermuda in an attempt to pay off his brother’s drug debts.Carnell Jones, a 39-year-old father-of-three from Chicago, was jailed for two-and-a-half years.Magistrates’ Court heard that he had been paid $7,000 to deliver cannabis resin to Bermuda inside plastic hangers.Jones’s American companion, 28-year-old Latrice Bell, was called “a very lucky woman” by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.He only ordered her to pay a fine for simple possession of cannabis.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.However, 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 some 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 safe, and the broken remains of the hangers hidden under the bed.Bell’s cabin contained the drugs purchased in Bermuda.Jones was charged with conspiring in Bermuda and elsewhere to import drugs, between a date unknown and June 12.He was further charged with attempting to remove property from Bermuda which he knew to be the proceeds from a criminal act.An emotional Bell admitted possessing the four grams of cannabis police found in her cruise ship cabin on June 13. She denied involvement in the conspiracy to import.Crown counsel Cindy Clarke said Jones brought Bell along from Chicago on an all-expenses-paid vacation. After flying to Boston, Jones was given five plastic hangers and a small suitcase in a Boston hotel room. Jones concealed the hangers with Bell’s clothing.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 jailed for two-and-a-half years when Customs officers at LF Wade International Airport found cannabis resin concealed inside five hollowed-out hangers. The drugs in that instance were said to have a value of $95,430.Mr Warner jailed Jones two-and-a-half years for smuggling, and one year for trying to send his proceeds out of the Country. The sentences are to be served concurrently.His $7,000 payment was seized. Jones was also ordered to pay back $1,200 to Bell, after the court heard that he had been keeping her money.Bell was ordered to pay her $1,000 fine immediately.