Three men convicted in billion-dollar cocaine bust
Published:Monday | July 29, 2024 | 7:57 PM
Three men were convicted on charges related to cocaine trafficking after they pleaded guilty in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.
Delroy Bremmer, Omar Nugent and Jamie White were convicted of: possession of cocaine and fined $1.5 million or six months in prison; trafficking in cocaine and fined $2 million or six months in prison; and importing cocaine and fined $2 million or six months in prison.
The sentences will run concurrently if the fines are not paid.
The vessel used in the commission of the offences was forfeited to the crown.
The defendants were arrested on Monday, December 26, 2022, after the Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard intercepted a vessel carrying 463 kilograms of cocaine off Morant Point, St Thomas with the three men aboard.
“The conviction of these three men demonstrates the value of collaboration in the fight against drug trafficking networks,” the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force said in a statement today.
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