Cocaine mule sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment, fined $3.3M
A twenty-three-year-old man was on Thursday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and fined $3.3 million by Magistrate Peter Hugh when he appeared in the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court slapped with a narco-possession charge.
Kelvin Sauers, also known as ‘John,’ pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read
Kelvin Sauers is being escorted by Police out of the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court
to him.
It was alleged that on July 6, 2018, while at his Lot 8 Enterprise, East Coast Demerara home, Sauers had in his possession 1.608 kilograms of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) prosecutor Konyo Sandiford realted that, on the day in question, CANU ranks acting on information received went to the man’s home to conduct a search.
Upon seeing the ranks, Sauers escaped through a window. Nevertheless, the lawmen searched the home, and subsequently found two haversacks containing 279 cocaine pellets which amounted to 1.608kg.
Sauers had since been on the run, until he was recently arrested.
