Guyanese gets 60 months in NJ for conspiring to import cocaine

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey has said that a Guyanese man has been given a 60-month jail term for his part in a scheme to bring drugs into that North American country.
Dennis Edwards, aka “Death,” 38, had previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Noel L. Hillman to a superseding information charging him with one count of conspiring to import over 20 kilograms of cocaine into the United States, a statement from the office said. The sentence was imposed on Thursday in Camden federal court.
Edwards had, in 2012, participated in a criminal conspiracy that planned to transport cocaine into the United States via cruise ship. When Edwards, who had been deported from the Dominican Republic, arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport on November 14, 2022, he was detained.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Hillman sentenced Edwards to three years of supervised release.
U.S. Attorney Sellinger credited special agents of Homeland Security Investigations, Newark, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge, Robert Kurtz; deputies of the U.S. Marshals Service under the direction of U.S. Marshal Juan Mattos, Jr; and officers of the Customs and Border Protection’s New York Field Office, under the direction of Director of Field Operations Francis J. Russo, with the investigation leading to the sentencing.
U.S. Attorney Sellinger thanked the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs for its substantial assistance in the investigation. He also thanked officials in the Dominican Republic for their assistance.
The U.S. Government was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rachelle M. Navarro of the Criminal Division in Newark.