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Guyanese woman gets 3 years hard labour in T&T

Jan 20, 2009 News

A Guyanese woman based in Florida, USA, was yesterday sentenced to three years hard labour by a Trinidad magistrate after she pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

The sentence was handed down to 36-year-old Davika Lakhram by Magistrate Debra Quintyn at the Arima Magistrate’s Court.
The woman’s brother, Annand Lahkram, a Guyana-born mortgage broker, who is also based in Florida, and a Guyanese taxi driver, Devon Wickham, 34, will return to court on January 26 for sentencing after they, too, pleaded guilty to similar charges.

The suspects had all arrived from Guyana on Saturday and were heading to separate destinations when they were apprehended.
A source in the twin-island republic stated that, at about 07:50 hours, the 34-year-old Wickham was about to board BW 416 en route to St. Maarten when officers from the Organised Crime, Narcotics and Firearms Bureau of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Force, who were on patrol at the airport, carried out a search of his luggage.
During the search, 2.6 kilograms of cocaine, with a street value of TT$1M, were discovered.
Seven hours later, Annand Lakhram and his sister, Davika, were about to board BW 480 en route to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA when they, too, were searched by the officers who had observed their suspicious actions.
The drug agents found two kilograms of cocaine, with a street value of TT$800,000, strapped to Annand Lakhram’s body. Another three kilograms of the drug, valued at TT$1.2M, were found concealed in a similar manner on his sister.

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