"Stupid" but not a Smuggler

The evidence begs to differ:

• A British woman allegedly caught carrying more than 90 pounds of cocaine in her luggage at O’Hare International Airport is “stupid,” but she’s not a drug smuggler, according to her father.

  John Hall told reporters in the UK that a couple of men promised his 28-year-old daughter, Kim, a free vacation in Cancun if she traveled home with two suitcases they had packed for her. They allegedly told Kim that each suitcase contained $250,000 cash, but they actually contained about $4.5 million worth of cocaine.

  Homeland security investigators intercepted her luggage and arrested Hall in August as she tried to make a connecting flight home to Manchester, England, according to court records.

  Hall’s father told a British paper that his daughter met two men claiming to be Mexican real estate developers while on vacation in Portugal, and they offered her a free getaway in exchange for her willingness to take two suitcases back home from Cancun.

Gotta admit, that sounds pretty stupid.

Hilariously, the judge refused to keep her in custody and ordered an ankle monitor. At the same time, the judge ordered her passport confiscated so she couldn't leave town. According to County policy, ankle monitors can only be issued to those with a fixed address, which a British citizen doesn't usually have, meaning she's been in custody at the jail since her August arrest.

Perhaps the judge is the stupid one here?