Man jailed for 4 years, fined $39M over drug bust at cargo company
Jailed: Christopher Douglas
Over the discovery of 57 pounds of cocaine at a cargo company, 37-year-old Christopher Douglas was on Wednesday jailed for four years and fined $39,024,000.
Douglas, of Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and of King Edward Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking charge when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrates’ Courts.
The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Sunday, during a routine operation at a cargo company at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, EBD, intercepted a motor car, PWW 5561, with the driver, Douglas, as the lone occupant.
The cocaine that was intercepted
A search was conducted on the vehicle, which led to the discovery of 23 brick-like parcels of suspected cocaine and a 9mm pistol along with a magazine containing 14 rounds of matching ammunition. As such, Douglas, 37, was arrested and escorted to CANU Headquarters.
While there, the narcotic tested positive for cocaine.
CANU has said that it continues to work assiduously with other stakeholders to ensure that narcotics are not transshipped via passenger or cargo through the CJIA and the Eugene F Correia International Airport, Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD). (G1)
