Pomeroon man busted with over 3kg cocaine gets 3 years
– Venezuelan duo remanded
Sentenced: Gavin Adams
Fifty-four-year-old Gavin Adams, who was busted with a quantity of cocaine last month, was on Friday sentenced to three years imprisonment after pleading guilty to a narcotics’ possession charge.
Adams, who initially pleaded not guilty to the charge which stated that, on May 19, 2024, he had 3.348 kilograms of cocaine, reportedly changed his plea to guilty when he appeared before the Sparendaam Magistrate on Friday. As such, the sentence was imposed by the magistrate.
The cocaine that was discovered at Adams’s home
The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) had reported that on the day in question, officers conducted an operation at Cummings Lodge where they arrested Adams and two Venezuelan nationals – Jose Gregorio Gomez,35, and Kevin De Jesus Figueira, 22 – following the discovery of one black haversack containing three black brick-like parcels with cocaine, which later weighed 3.348 kilograms.
The cocaine that was found at Cummings Lodge
However, Gomes was released during the preliminary investigations, but De Jesus Figueira was remanded to prison after changing his plea from guilty to not guilty when he appeared at the Charity Magistrate’s Court on June 19, 2024.
In addition, CANU officers subsequently visited Adams’s home at Grant Woodland, Lower Pomeroon River, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), where another Venezuelan national, Sergio Ortiz Rafael, was arrested with 5.6 kilograms of cocaine.
He, too, was remanded awaiting trial.
