ECD woman jailed for 4 years, fined $16.7M for drug trafficking

A 60-year-old woman from Haslington, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was on Friday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and fined $16,782,000 for trafficking a quantity of cocaine.

Unique Sunshine London was convicted after a months-long trial before Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrates’ Courts.
She trafficked 11.188 kilograms of cocaine on September 14, 2022, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
It was reported that on September 14, 2022, London was an outgoing passenger destined for the John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York when she was intercepted with a large quantity of cocaine in her carry-on luggage by CANU officers.

As such, she was escorted to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) Headquarters where the illegal substance was weighed and amounted to 11.188kg with a street value of $12.3 million locally. Had the drug landed in the US, it would have been worth US$336,000 ($73 million).
“CANU wishes to remind the public that the trafficking of narcotics is illegal and care should be taken in examining packages when asked by others to transport them,” CANU had advised following London’s arrest. (G1)