A woman who became the unintended victim of an elaborate plot to smuggle narcotics into the United States is suing American Airlines, claiming one of the carrier’s employees set her up, leading to her detention in a squalid jail where she was threatened with rape and had to sleep on a concrete floor covered in faeces and urine.
Alison Dominguez from Miami, Florida, traveled to the Bahamas on April 10 and stayed in the island paradise for just two days before heading to Nassau Airport for her return flight with American Airlines to Miami.
She did not, however, board her return flight as she was stopped at the gate by law enforcement and accused of trying to illegally smuggle 100 bottles of Codeine out of the Bahamas and onto US soil inside a checked bag.
Alison would spend almost a week in a Bahamian jail, surviving in “horrific conditions,” sleeping on the floor, and without access to toilet facilities. At one point, the guards even told Alison she may have been exposed to AIDS, leaving her even more distraught…