Yeremi Tolentino of Lynn, Massachusetts, was accused by Canadian authorities of having cocaine inside a shampoo bottle; after five days in jail, he was told testing confirmed no drugs were found.
A vacation in Brazil turned into a nightmare for an airline worker from Lynn, Massachusetts.
On Brazilian soil, Yeremi Tolentino had no problems. But when he made a connection in Canada to travel back to Boston, Canadian authorities put him in custody, alleging he had cocaine inside a shampoo bottle. "I was terrified, I was afraid, I didn't really know what was going to happen," he said."I didn't know what was going to happen with my family. I wasn't sure if they were lying."
Tolentino was detained five days, from April 9-14, at Ontario's Mapple-Hurst Correctional Facility. He says he got little clarity on the charges against him or how the process would move forward.Sign up for NECN newsletters.During that time, Tolentino says his family in Massachusetts was desperately looking for him, and that the jail did not allow them to communicate with him directly.Local
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