NASSAU- Police on April 14 charged a third suspect in connection with a $3.1 million cocaine bust in Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera.
Two days after he surrendered to police, Pilot Michael Andrew Taylor, 37, appeared before Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes over his alleged involvement in the March 29 cocaine smuggling operation.
Taylor’s alleged co-conspirators appeared in court earlier this month.
Prosecutors allege that Taylor and Brandon Miller, another pilot, conspired with Johnnie Emil, 46, of Rock Sound, Eleuthera to import the cocaine and distribute it.
The pilots alone are charged with drug possession with intent to supply and drug importation.
Taylor, like his alleged co-conspirators, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Magistrate Forbes granted him $10,000 bail. Taylor will return to court for trial on September 1.
Officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit went to the Governor’s Harbour Airport on March 29 after learning of the alleged drug run, police said.
DEU officers stopped and searched two men who disembarked the target airplane and searched them.
But they didn’t find anything illegal. However, DEU officers later found several cocaine-filled bags in bushes near the airstrip.
Cops hunt third man as 2 charged in $3.1m coke bust
