Former Deerfield gun runner is back at school

Former Deerfield student

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

9/1/2011

Afrika Owes, a 17-year-old girl from Harlem who attended the prestigious Deerfield Academy in Connecticut has been released from Riker’s Island.

Owes was arrested and accused of transporting guns for her boyfriend, Jaquan “Jay Cash” Layne in February and was incarcerated in Riker’s Island since then.

Owes was released from Rikers Island Thursday – and the only thing on the accused gun moll’s mind is returning to school.

“I’m just ready for school,” the 17-year-old Harlem girl told the Daily News.

She declined to comment further, but her lawyer insisted Owes learned a valuable lesson.

“She learned a lot from this, and she will continue to learn from this,” said Elsie Chandler of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. “The court released her so that she can return to school, among other stringent requirements.”

To be clear, she isn’t back at Deerfield, a great prep school in western Massachusetts. Selling Glocks is definitely a major offense and frowned upon at school.