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Colombians fined for illegal entry

Apr 30, 2013 News

 

 

Two Colombians, Yelson Castillo and Barquen Vallejo Fuis Hernan, were detained when they entered Guyana illegally on April 26, at Springlands, Corentyne.
The defendants who appeared before Magistrate Alan Wilson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday, pleaded guilty to the charge which stated that they entered into Guyana by sea and disembarked without the permission of the Immigration Officer.
The prosecution stated that on that date, the defendants who are Colombian nationals were outgoing passengers to Brazil through Lethem. It was here that they were asked to produce their passports.
It was observed by an Immigration Officer that their passports did not have an entry stamp. As a result, both were arrested, taken to CID Headquarters and questioned.
Both defendants claimed that they entered the country in order to reach Brazil, where they would proceed to Colombia.
Through an interpreter, Castillo told the court “I ran away because my two brothers were murdered in Colombia and after the cartels threatened me and I have been scared. I stayed in Suriname for one year and I heard my mother is very, very ill so I was going back to Colombia when the police apprehended me.”
Hernan told the court that after Castillo’s brothers, who were also his cousins, were killed, he became frightened that he may be next. He expressed that his only request is to return to his homeland.
The two defendants were subsequently fined $30,000 each and an order was made for both to be deported.

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