'Samsung heiress' in 229kg marijuana bust

[sew850i]

13:18 AEST Thu Jun 17 2010

 

By ninemsn staff with wires (<< wtf?)

 

A Californian woman arrested for allegedly smuggling 229kg of marijuana on a private jet may be an heiress to the Samsung electronics fortune.

 

Lisette Lee, a 28-year-old socialite, was arrested by drug enforcement officials in Columbus, Ohio, after they received a tip-off she was carrying a suspicious amount of luggage, CBS News reported.

 

She reportedly told authorities that she was an heiress to the South Korean electronics fortune.

 

After the chartered plane landed in Ohio, one of Lee's assistants and her bodyguard helped baggage workers unload some of the luggage, authorities said.

 

It took two men to carry some of the large suitcases, which were packed with bricks of pot, and three vehicles to carry all the luggage, authorities said.

 

Authorities also confiscated from Lee's bag three mobile phones, cocaine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and suspected drug ledgers that showed some $347,500 in transactions.

 

Lee was charged with conspiracy and possession of drugs with the intent to distribute. Her lawyers, Bill Meeks and Dave Thomas, did not immediately return a message left Wednesday. She was being held without bail pending a Friday hearing.

 

Her bodyguard and two personal assistants were released pending possible indictments, DEA agent Anthony Marotta said.

 

Officials are now trying to confirm that Lee is a heiress to the Samsung electronics fortune.

 

Lee told investigators that she chartered the plane from Van Nuys, California, to Columbus, Ohio, to visit a boyfriend and transport equipment to a horse farm. She said it was her fourth such trip.

 

She said a friend paid her $69,500 to take more than a dozen suitcases from Los Angeles to an unattended hotel room in Columbus, stay for a few days and then bring back fewer pieces of luggage, authorities said.

 

Lee later told investigators that she and her entourage knew the horse story was phony and that they were likely involved with "weapons and money laundering or something," authorities wrote in court papers.

 

If convicted, Lee could face up to 40 years in prison and a fine of up to $2.3 million.

 

this is pretty unusual ey.. this is gonna look bad for samsung!

 

SOURCE: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1071710/s...-of-pot-into-us

[mull-ray]

- wish I had a private jet.

[phreakah]

MMMMMM private jet.

Hey guys, lets go to Amsterdam!

[louise]

silly bitch

[SHEEPinWOLFskin]

Hmm that's a lot of oil there life sentence for a nobody, lets see what she gets

[DarkSpark]

hehe, the more money you got to spend hte more trouble you can get yourself into... one reason why selling small us safer. life in jail and millions in fines, fuck that... i can think of many ways to easily hide the drugs better than that... Change of scene going from socialite so jailbird

[redatnight]

I'm thinking just a slap on the wrist for this bitch

[cybergenesis]

I'm thinking just a slap on the wrist for this bitch

 

Oh I agree, antipot laws were made to target the poor and marginalized and remove them from the street, they had no intent to presecute fine rich people like this lady.

 

She will be let off lightly.

 

What a STUPID bitch though.

 

Sure smoke weed if you like it.

 

But there is no way in hell I would risk myself if I had so much money, the only point to do such a thing would be to make money!

[redatnight]

would love to see the full penalty here

 

40 years BRING IT ON!!!