Men found guilty of drug trafficking
(CNS): Four Jamaican nationals intercepted by the police and coastguard off the coast of East End in March this year have been convicted of trafficking some 400lbs of ganja following a four-week trial. The jury returned the guilty verdict Thursday afternoon after seeing compelling evidence of the men’s guilt in exceptional quality video footage from the police helicopter as well as the sophisticated technical data tracking of the chase from when the boat was first spotted until the men were taken into custody.
Marvin Brown, Toney Williams, O’Neil Minnott and Ricardo Drysdale had all denied the charges against them. They had insisted that there was no ganja on the boat and suggested they were on a fishing trip from Jamaica and had arranged to meet a Honduran vessel at sea to exchange lobster for fish.
They claimed that they were totally unaware that they had entered Cayman waters as there was no GPS aboard the vessel. The men had also implied that when they were approached by police, they fled in fear because they believed the Cayman authorities were going to shoot them, but that they were throwing lobster overboard not drugs.
Following the unanimous verdict all four men were remanded in custody to await sentencing later this month.
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You all making a big deal about ganja weed call it what you all wants it’s a Bush natural plant from God it not a man made things like guns and bomb cutlass and all those dangerous weapons l think the government should find God and arrested him for first ganja is like any other plants stop sending people to prison for God natural plants
I’d love to know which one came up with their cover story. I’d have also loved to see the faces of the others agreeing to the plan.
It genuinely would make a great film!
Don’t get offered drugs on the streets of Singapore
No rocket science here, deal with the dealers and educate, treat and rehabilitate the users
Yeah, yeah everyone is an expert…. including me!
Jamaica grow gangs, but they don’t make guns
Well done RCIPS. We don’t want this addictive trash on our streets of Cayman. There’s enough crime here as it is. I feel sorry for people that can’t function without this substance.
I was inclined to believe the story about meeting on the high seas at a specific location without any GPS. Throwing lobster overboard just adds to the credibility of the whole story.
Or we could just legalize the plant and the guns would slow down too.
So these criminals are from JA. Wow surprise, surprise. Yet every time someone mentions the crime rate in Cayman is being committed by mainly Jamaicans the Jamaicans get angry and take offence. SMH!
It’s multi faceted. There’s plenty of caymanian scumbags as well as jamaicans.
All other nations’ trash is here too. Plenty of white collar scumbags from the UK, Canada and the USA.
STFU with your jamaican hate!
I bet you love to drink hot chocolate milk, guess what,it was invented by jamaicans so think about that the next time you take a sip.
I love a smoke of some good lobster to alleviate my woes.
Since they wasted all that “lobster” feed them sardines every day in prison, the deport their @$$e$.
Will someone please hurry up and grant them status before someone suggests there are 4 more Jamaicans in Northward.
If they plead guilty they would have got a lesser sentence lol.
Not the brightest sparks. Video of them throwing the stuff overboard. Video of it floating. Video of it being picked up. Pled guilty would have got 30% off the sentence, and then qualified for early release after 50% of the reduced sentence served. You can’t fix stupid.
Plead guilty and it’s over and done. Now the lawyer gets to appeal to the Grand Court and maybe even the Privy Council if we have any free money left in that legal defense fund.
That’s true but the strategy was to plead guilty and get more time because northward prison is way safer than what these poor sufferers might face when they head back home, preservation of life I guess.
Legalize it.
The government should allow private citizens to legally grow for their own consumption, as this may deter the flow of the drugs to the island.
Marijuana is coming in because there is a lucrative market here for it.
Many people use the CBD oil for pain management, the plant itself can be use for the same purpose without undergoing any chemical process.
The government should give this some serious consideration as there are many positive to go be had.
I am just thinking we need to think outside of the box, now that borders are remaining close and what is happening with other countries.
Allow the growers to sell it to those who prefer to buy. Tarn they will need a trade and business, government regulation, we are creating an alternative or additional source of income.
Were the lobsters white?
Actually no they weren’t, these guys were jamaicans not Colombians and the product was meant for here not america.
Who was their legal team? Why didn’t that lawyer explain the quality of incontrovertible evidence that would be used to convict them and would have been available to both sides via discovery? As bad as our public prosecutors are, it seems our court appointed public defenders are even worse. The longer these trials go, the more expensive it is for everyone. They clog the courts, and now by lying these three are penned up in Cayman longer consuming that budget too.
The Jamaican government should be sent the bill. They permit this trade to carry on with impunity.
You can’t force a client to plead guilty, and even the dumbest lawyer would have realized this one was unwinnable. Don’t think you can pin this on the legal advice- stupid is as stupid does.
throwing lobsters overboard LOL
It’s fortunate that so many criminals make up moronic tales to defend themselves. Let’s see a maximum sentence for a change, Judge. This is how all these guns get to Cayman.