cocaine - Bahamas Court News https://bahamascourtnews.com Providing comprehensive coverage of court cases Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:13:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Colombian smugglers to testify against cop https://bahamascourtnews.com/colombian-smugglers-to-testify-against-cop-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colombian-smugglers-to-testify-against-cop-2 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:13:08 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=6069 Two Colombian drug smugglers have agreed to testify against an allegedly corrupt cop

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]]> Cops find 5 kilos of cocaine in box of seafood https://bahamascourtnews.com/cops-find-5-kilos-of-cocaine-in-box-of-seafood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cops-find-5-kilos-of-cocaine-in-box-of-seafood Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:51:04 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=6023 INAGUA- Police found five kilos of cocaine, worth $100,000, hidden inside a box of seafood. The officers made the discovery around noon on Saturday January 21 after checking a box on a mail boat in Inagua. They are quizzing a 65-year-old man about the $100,000 cocaine find.

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]]> Airline ticket agent denies plot to smuggle cocaine https://bahamascourtnews.com/airline-ticket-agent-denies-plot-to-smuggle-cocaine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=airline-ticket-agent-denies-plot-to-smuggle-cocaine Tue, 10 May 2022 21:58:42 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5243 NASSAU- An airline employee is accused of helping his cousin bypass security by getting a suitcase with 32 pounds of cocaine onto a flight from Inagua to New Providence. Bahamasair ticket agent Nerico Beneby, 23, and his 40-year-old cousin, Duedanae Leann Cox, both appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney on May 10 charged with drug possession […]

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]]> FedEx cocaine smuggler pleads guilty https://bahamascourtnews.com/fedex-cocaine-smuggler-pleads-guilty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fedex-cocaine-smuggler-pleads-guilty Sat, 05 Feb 2022 10:39:26 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5028 FLORIDA- A Bahamian woman has pleaded guilty to conspiring to import cocaine from Grand Bahama into the United States through FedEx. Pereze Ferguson’s guilty plea came after a judge denied a motion to toss her post-arrest statement. Her lawyer alleged that Ferguson confessed because police officers allowed her four-year-old son in the interview room. Ferguson’s […]

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]]> Man charged in $5m cocaine seizure gets bail https://bahamascourtnews.com/man-charged-in-5m-cocaine-seizure-gets-bail-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-charged-in-5m-cocaine-seizure-gets-bail-2 Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:30:00 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=4572 NASSAU- A man charged in the biggest cocaine bust of the year has been granted $50,000 bail. Officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit arrested Kenly Guerrier in connection with the November 15 seizure of 250 kilos of cocaine. The officers swarmed Guerrier’s apartment at Russell Town, Eight Mile Rock and carried out a search warrant. […]

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]]> Police used child to make mom confess, lawyer claims https://bahamascourtnews.com/police-used-child-to-make-mom-confess-lawyer-claims/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=police-used-child-to-make-mom-confess-lawyer-claims Mon, 27 Sep 2021 08:01:20 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=4104 FLORIDA- The attorney for a Bahamian woman charged with drug smuggling is trying to prevent her post-arrest statement from being used at her trial. Pereze Ferguson, 27, faces cocaine importation charges. Florida law enforcement intercepted 2.9 kilos of cocaine that was shipped through FedEx from The Bahamas on June 16, 2020. However, the courier service […]

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]]> Man jailed for keeping ‘found’ cocaine https://bahamascourtnews.com/man-jailed-for-keeping-found-cocaine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-jailed-for-keeping-found-cocaine Thu, 23 Sep 2021 08:00:29 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=4069 NASSAU -A promoter caught with more than two kilos of cocaine and a small amount of marijuana in his suitcase has been jailed for one year. D’Neco Cleare and his wife, Tequiera Pratt, were scheduled to travel Abaco on Western Air on September 20. However,  their plans were derailed when a baggage screener at the […]

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]]> Drug mule ‘forced’ to smuggle cocaine https://bahamascourtnews.com/drug-mule-forced-to-smuggle-cocaine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drug-mule-forced-to-smuggle-cocaine Wed, 15 Sep 2021 06:55:47 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/drug-mule-forced-to-smuggle-cocaine/ NASSAU- Convicted drug mule Junior Reid has claimed that a drug cartel forced him to smuggle cocaine here from Panama. The Jamaican was jailed for 18 months and fined $10,000 for attempting to smuggle a kilo of cocaine worth $20,000. Reid told the court that he can’t pay the fine, meaning he’ll serve another six […]

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]]> Bahamian dealer pleads guilty in $200k cocaine case https://bahamascourtnews.com/bahamian-dealer-pleads-guilty-200k-cocaine-case/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bahamian-dealer-pleads-guilty-200k-cocaine-case Wed, 05 May 2021 08:31:54 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=3766 FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA – A Bahamian drug dealer arrested after he picked up four bricks of cocaine worth US$200,000 from a Florida airport pleaded guilty on Wednesday. Darron William Smith, 28, faces a minimum sentence of five years in prison for attempting to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute. Smith’s sentencing is scheduled […]

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]]> Third suspect charged in $3.1 million cocaine bust by https://bahamascourtnews.com/third-suspect-charged-in-3-1-million-cocaine-bust/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=third-suspect-charged-in-3-1-million-cocaine-bust Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:37:59 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=3701 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 […]

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