Overview
- Kimberly Hall, 29, pleaded guilty on Sept. 8 at Chicago’s Leighton Criminal Court and received a six-year term under a negotiated agreement.
- Customs officers found 21 bundles weighing about 43 kilograms with an estimated street value of $6.2 million, and court records say she admitted agreeing to deliver them to Manchester.
- She was first placed on electronic monitoring after surrendering her passport, then jailed when prosecutors said she was booked on a deportation flight and alleged she sought to use ICE to leave the country.
- Her lawyer has asserted she acted under duress, while tabloid interviews detailed her claims of threats; those accounts were raised in mitigation but remain disputed publicly.
- Because the offense is served at 50% time and she has credit for about a year, roughly two years of custody remain before a possible return to the U.K.