The Latest: Flight attendant pleads guilty in drug smuggling
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Latest on a former JetBlue flight attendant charged with trying to smuggle cocaine (all times local):
4:05 p.m.
A former JetBlue flight attendant who tried to smuggle 60 pounds of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport and then made a dash to escape has pleaded guilty to a federal charge.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Marsha Gay Reynolds entered the plea Monday to conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine. She faces at least 10 years in federal prison.
The 32-year-old is a former Jamaican beauty queen who lived in Queens, New York.
In a plea agreement, Reynolds said she'd smuggled cocaine nine times through security at LAX and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The scheme ended in March when she was flagged for secondary screening at LAX. She left her cocaine-filled carry-on bags, kicked off her Gucci high heels and bolted down an upward-moving escalator.
Reynolds worked a JetBlue flight to New York the next day but later surrendered.