Hamid Mohamed Ali was caught with a little more than two kilos of cocaine in his suitcase last week

A British citizen who was caught with a little more than two kilos of cocaine in his suitcase last week at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana was jailed and fined heavily. Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton imposed a four year jail sentence and a $2.5 million dollar in fine on Hamid Mohamed Ali after he pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics. The Kaieteur News newspaper reported that Ali was carefully searched after he started to behave suspiciously and the cocaine was found in 37 mascara boxes in his suitcase.

Hamid Mohamed Ali was caught with a little more than two kilos of cocaine in his suitcase last week

A British citizen who was caught with a little more than two kilos of cocaine in his suitcase last week at Cheddi Jagan International Airpor...

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Michelle McKenzie sentenced to four years in prison

Michelle McKenzie of Negril, Westmoreland was fined 860,000 Guyanese dollars, the value of the drugs she was caught with.One of three Jamaicans held with cocaine in a dart board at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana last Friday was sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday.The Court ordered that she be deported at the end of her sentence.McKenzie, who is four months pregnant, pleaded guilty to having trafficked 956 grams of cocaine.…McKenzie left behind a two-year-old child in Jamaica

Michelle McKenzie sentenced to four years in prison

Michelle McKenzie of Negril, Westmoreland was fined 860,000 Guyanese dollars, the value of the drugs she was caught with.One of three Jamaic...

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25-year-old British student

Christmas Eve, police arrested a 25-year-old British student whom they suspected had swallowed cocaine, and as of Friday he had expelled 40 pellets containing the drug. <br />A police press release yesterday said that ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch arrested the man at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, after observing his activities. <br />He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was placed under guard and monitored. <br />The release further said that up to Friday he had excreted 40 cocaine pellets together weighing 485 grams.

25-year-old British student

Christmas Eve, police arrested a 25-year-old British student whom they suspected had swallowed cocaine, and as of Friday he had expelled 40 ...

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