Two Manitoba women are facing several years in U.S. federal prisons after they were found guilty of cocaine trafficking in South Dakota earlier this month. jury found Winnipeg's Bethlehem Shah guilty on Aug. 21 of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the state last week. Shah, 22, was supposed to meet Brittany Babiuk — also a Manitoban — in Fargo, N.D., to pick up cocaine and bring it across the border into Canada. The U.S. Attorney's Office says a co-conspirator worked with law enforcement to record phone calls and have Shah meet them in Spearfish to pick up the drugs. The court judgment file states Babiuk will be deported following her release from prison, but will have to provide her DNA to a probation officer.

Source: CBC News August 31, 2020 21:45 UTC