19-year-old trying to fly to London arrested at Logan, charged with trafficking 70 pounds of marijuana

A teen is being held on bail after law enforcement allegedly found about 70 pounds of marijuana on her at Logan Airport before her flight back to the United Kingdom, officials said. 

19-year-old Fareedat Folunsho, of London, is charged with trafficking marijuana between 50 and 100 pounds, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office said in a statement Tuesday. She was ordered held on $1,500 bail, along with having to surrender her passport, after her arraignment at East Boston BMC on Monday.

State Police were called to the U.S. Customs Hall at about 9:30 p.m. after Folunsho was taken into custody Sunday for allegedly trying to fly back to the UK with the marijuana, which is illegal in the country and has a street value of about $5,000 per pound, Hayden’s office said. 

Folunsho is the second person allegedly attempting to fly to the UK who has been arrested at the Logan Airport for trafficking marijuana in the last two months, according to Hayden’s office. 

A Michigan woman was arrested and charged last month after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents allegedly found 74 pounds of marijuana on her before her flight to London.

“These two arrests in a fairly short time span should make it quite clear to anyone else trying to fly marijuana to the UK through Boston that it’s not a good idea, to say the least. It didn’t work for these two women and it’s not likely to work for anyone else either,” Hayden said in a statement.

Trafficking between 50 to 100 pounds of marijuana holds a sentence of between two and a half to 15 years in state prison or jail for at least one year but not more than two and a half, according to state law. 

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