A pregnant Bermudian faces a possible 14-year prison sentence for importing $100,000 worth of cannabis resin into the UK from Amsterdam.

Denika Burrows, 30, was caught at Waterloo train station in London on Wednesday, April 27, and has been on remand in an all-female prison for the last two months.

Burrows pleaded guilty to importation charges after she was stopped carrying 1.047 kilograms of cannabis resin with an estimated street value of ?2,430.

The price of the weight of drug in the UK in dollars is $4,439.86, but the price of the same weight of drug in Bermuda is $100,000.

Burrows is employed as a taxi office receptionist at Radio Cabs and has two other children in Bermuda.

She was arrested in Waterloo with her travelling companion, 32-year-old Ervin Dunty Jermaine Bean.

Bean was born in Bermuda, but is a British national and works in the UK as a health care worker, UK Customs spokeswoman Beryl St. James said yesterday.

Bean was caught with 628 grams of cannabis resin, with an estimated street value of ?1,450 ($2,649.30) or the Bermuda price of $62,800.

Cannabis resin has a street value in Bermuda of about $50 per half gram, roughly twice the amount as regular cannabis, which sells for $25 per half-gram, according to the Bermuda Police Narcotics Department .

Sold by the half gram in Bermuda, the total haul could be worth $162,800.

Ms St. James said the pair were arrested after they disembarked a Eurostar train from Brussels, Belgium.

Burrows arrived in the UK from Bermuda on Saturday, April 23, then went to Amsterdam.

When they were stopped in Waterloo, Burrows was carrying one small black case and one large green case.

Burrows told Customs Officers that the bags belonged to her and that she had packed the bags herself.

Burrows said she had not been given anything to carry by another person and that she knew it was illegal to import drugs into the UK.

?The cases were opened and a quantity of cannabis resin was found,? Ms St. James said yesterday. ?Ms Burrows was then arrested and cautioned under suspicion of being in possession of a controlled drug.?

However, at this point Burrows told Customs Officers she was pregnant and that she needed to go to the toilet, she said.

Burrows was escorted to the toilet with two female Officers, where a tape-lined package was discovered to be concealed around her person.

The package was removed and tested positive for containing cannabis resin.

Ms. St. James said the small package found in Burrows? suitcase was a ?very small amount? of herbal cannabis, probably meant for personal use, so the weight and street value was not given.

At the same time that Burrows was arrested, her travelling companion Ervin Bean was also being searched.

?Mr. Bean was also detained at the same time via Customs and Police,? Ms St. James said. ?During a search of his person a package was found on him.?

This package also tested positive for cannabis resin.

Both Burrows and Bean pleaded guilty to importing a controlled drug at a local Magistrates? Court shortly after their arrest, Ms St. James said, although the exact date was not known.

After their arrest, they would be taken to a local Magistrates? Court, where they were cautioned and charged.

?They would have been up in court fairly quickly,? she said. ?They both pleaded guilty, so there will be no trial?.

And she said the maximum sentence for importation of a controlled drug into the UK still stands at 14 years in jail, even though the classification of cannabis has been moved from a class A to a class C.

In a 1996 Bermudian law, cannabis and cannabis resin was classified as a class B drug.

Speaking about how long the sentence was likely to be, Ms St. James said: ?It is for the judiciary to decide?.