Tag: drug smuggling
Cocaine traffickers dodge long prison terms
(CNS): A combination of mitigating factors, admissions of guilt and help given to the police saw two local men convicted of trying to smuggle over 4.65 kilos of cocaine into the Cayman Islands dodge what could have been almost two decades behind bars for their part in the conspiracy. At the sentencing hearing on Tuesday, […]
Suspect smugglers deny importing 5Ks of cocaine
(CNS): When they appeared in court on Friday, Elroy James, David Webster and Fitzgerald Santini all denied being concerned with importing five kilos of cocaine into the Cayman Islands. The group of accused smugglers will remain in custody until they stand trial in February. The three men, all from Honduras, were arrested on Friday, 11 November, after […]
5k of cocaine seized from fishing boat
(CNS): Three Honduran men, aged 59, 42 and 39, were arrested on Friday, 11 November, after a midnight bust at sea by the Cayman Islands Coast Guard supported by the RCIPS helicopter. They have since been charged with the importation of cocaine and appeared in court Wednesday. According to the police, the coastguard and the […]
500lbs of ganja seized, 4 charged after chase at sea
(CNS): One local man from West Bay and three Jamaican men appeared in court Monday facing drug smuggling charges following a chase at sea on Saturday, when the Cayman Islands Coast Guard seized over 500lbs of ganja. The chase happened around noon while the coastguard boat was on patrol and the crew spotted a suspect […]
HMS Medway sinks boat after $28M cocaine bust
(CNS): Crew members of the Royal Navy Caribbean-based patrol ship, HMS Medway, accompanied by US Coast Guard officers, boarded a drug boat near the Dominican Republic and seized over 400kg (around 882lbs) of cocaine with a street value of more than £24M ($US28M) on its first day of enforcement operations, the UK Ministry Of Defence […]
Drug smuggling suspects on the loose in East End
(CNS): Three men abandoned a boat on the shore by Paradise Villas in East End and escaped into the bushes yesterday after they were chased by the Cayman Islands Coast Guard. CICG officers on patrol spotted a suspicious vessel with three men aboard approaching the shore at high speed, but when the coastguard boat moved […]
Ganja haul seized at CBC warehouse
(CNS): Four men have been arrested on suspicion of importing ganja following an operation by Customs and Border Control (CBC), assisted by the RCIPS, carried out last Thursday at the CBC warehouse on Owen Roberts Drive, George Town. Three of the men, aged 23, 30 and 52, are from George Town and the fourth man, […]
Third man in drug smuggling gang admits guilt
(CNS): In court last week, Andre Carroll Woodman admitted his part in a smuggling operation last year that was intercepted by the police. His co-defendants, Jermaine Jevornie Myles and Alexander Adrian Ebanks, had previously pleaded guilty to importing 4.65 kilos of cocaine. Woodman has now also admitted to this plus an additional charge of handling […]
Drug smuggling witness attacked in jail
(CNS): Andrew Beckford (42) was attacked in prison on Monday by the man he had given evidence against in a drug and guns smuggling case. However, at his sentencing hearing, Justice Cheryll Richards reduced the ten-year mandatory sentence Beckford was facing to just 30 months due to exceptional circumstances, which means he will soon be […]
Local man gets 14 years for smuggling drugs & guns
(CNS): Dencle Vic Barnes (52) from George Town has been sentenced to 14 years in prison following his conviction earlier this year for smuggling two handguns and 70lbs of ganja. Barnes initially tried, and failed, to get the case thrown out on the grounds that his human rights had been violated. The charges against Barnes […]
BVI premier waiting release on bond from US jail
(CNS): A Miami judge has ruled that British Virgin Islands Premier Andrew Fahie (51) can be released on U$500,000 bail following his arrest on drug-smuggling and money laundering charges in a DEA sting in South Florida last week. According to news reports in the US following Fahie’s scheduled court appearance on Wednesday, Judge Alicia Otazo-Reyes […]
