DUTCH WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO ECSTASY CHARGE

An Amsterdam woman, who was searched and arrested in March seconds after
she stepped off a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Memphis, pleaded guilty
Friday to trying to bring nearly 7 1/2 pounds - or 10,500 doses - of the
club drug Ecstasy into Memphis.

Dorothy Ingrid Leijen pleaded guilty to one count of drug possession with
intent to distribute.

Leijen is one of three defendants in Ecstasy cases who are either from
Amsterdam or who have a connection to the Dutch city.

She is scheduled to be sentenced in September by U.S. Dist. Judge Julia
Gibbons.

Leijen was arrested in March at Memphis International Airport after a
Customs agent noticed something suspicious and called for a search of Leijen.

Asst. U.S. Atty. Stuart Canale told Gibbons that Customs agents found
several packages of Ecstasy tablets strapped to her body.

A grand jury indicted Leijen four days later.

Prosecutors say Amsterdam is a major source of Ecstasy for the Memphis area.

Kenneth Julius Caupain, 20, of Amsterdam, was sentenced in April to 18
months in prison and deportation at the end of the prison sentence after he
pleaded guilty to bringing 6,000 doses of Ecstasy to Memphis from Amsterdam.

Andrian Anh-Tuan Dest, 26, a U.S. citizen who lived in Amsterdam at one
time, pleaded guilty to federal Ecstasy charges in May.

Dest was jailed days before his guilty plea on a new Ecstasy charge.

During a search of his Cordova home, investigators found a new passport to
replace the one he had to turn over in order to be released on his own
recognizance.