POT FOUND IN LUGGAGE.Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff Writer BURBANK - Police took a 20-year-old woman into custody at Burbank Airport after they found her carrying more than 35 pounds of marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates. in a bag she said someone else packed for her, officials said Wednesday. Stephanie Wilkinson was booked on suspicion of transporting marijuana at the Burbank Police Department's jail after a detective at Burbank- Glendale-Pasadena Airport found the marijuana, estimated to be worth more than $100,000, packed in her carry-on luggage LUGGAGE. Such things as are carried by a traveller, generally for his personal accommodation; baggage. In England this word is generally used in the same sense that baggage is used in the United States. See Baggage. , police said. Detective Carlos Gomez, stationed at the airport to work on narcotics-related interdictions, became suspicious of Wilkinson's luggage as it went through the X-ray machine Noun 1. X-ray machine - an apparatus that provides a source of X rays apparatus, setup - equipment designed to serve a specific function fluoroscope, roentgenoscope - an X-ray machine that combines an X-ray source and a fluorescent screen to enable direct about noon Wednesday and asked her who had packed her luggage. ``The lady said, 'I didn't pack my bag, my aunt packed it,' '' said Burbank police Sgt. Kelly Frank. After Wilkinson gave her consent for her luggage to be searched, Gomez opened the carry-on piece and found the marijuana under a pair of pants In mathematics, a pair of pants is a simple two-dimensional surface resembling a pair of pants. In hyperbolic geometry, pairs of pants are sewn together, leg to leg, or leg to waist, to create Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. , Gomez said. ``It was just sitting there,'' he said. Gomez interviewed Wilkinson and said she was ``very cooperative,'' adding that she admitted it was her baggage, but claimed that she did not do the packing. ``She claimed someone asked her to carry the baggage onto the airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. ,'' Gomez said. Wilkinson was taken into custody and booked at the Burbank jail in lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. $50,000 bail, officials said. |
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