THE Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are reportedly outraged over the sentence given to former Miss Guyana/Universe 2002, Mia Rahaman, for taking cocaine into the country.
The Toronto Sun newspaper also reported that immigration officials will be seeking to have her landed status revoked and have her deported to Guyana on account of the cocaine conviction.
The former Guyanese beauty queen, on February 18 last, in a Brampton, Ontario court, pleaded guilty to importing 7.5 kilos of cocaine into Canada and was sentenced to two years house arrest, in addition to 240 hours of community service.
The Toronto Sun said the RCMP wanted Rahaman to go to prison and quoted Constable Arlene Flynn as saying, "We wanted something to deter young people from smuggling drugs."
Rahaman, who was Guyana’s delegate at the Miss Universe Pageant in Puerto Rico in 2002, was nabbed at the Pearson International Airport outside of Toronto with the drug valued at some CAD$1M in her suitcase and jar containing her personal cosmetics.
She was made to post CAD$5,000 bail along with CAD$20, 000 surety for her pre-trial freedom.