NASSAU- Two Colombian drug smugglers have agreed to testify against an allegedly corrupt cop, who’s accused of helping them to bring a shipment of cocaine and marijuana into the country last year.
Cristhian Garcia and Cristhian Aragon will have their prison sentences cut to three years and two months in exchange for their testimony against ASP Sonny Miller, the former chief of police on Acklins.
Miller is accused of abetting Garcia and Aragon to import 181 pounds of cocaine, worth $1.4 million, and 31 pounds of marijuana, valued at $34,000, into Acklins on June 7, 2022.
Garcia, Aragon and Miller were arrested at the airport in Spring Point, Acklins following a joint operation between the US Coast Guard, the Drug Enforcement Unit and the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Aragon and Garcia took a plea agreement on Friday and were sentenced to 60 months in prison for drug possession with intent to supply, drug importation and conspiring to commit those offenses. The sentence was reduced to 52 months after they received credit for the eight months that they spent on remand.
The sentence will be reduced to 38 months in exchange for their testimony against Miller.
However, the convicts will serve five years and four months in prison if they back out of the deal to become cooperating witnesses.
Persons convicted of drug trafficking offenses are not entitled to time off for good behaviour.
Garcia and Aragon travelled from Bogota, Colombia to The Dominican Republic. From there, they went to Venezuela, where the seats were taken from the plane and the drugs were put on. They arrived in Acklins on June 7, 2022.
