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Cocaine in Ochroes…Campbellville man sentenced to 5 years, fined $40M
Handrick Cummings, 25, of Lot 23 John Street, Campbellville, was yesterday sentenced to five years imprisonment along with a fine of $40.5M after he admitted to attempting to ship cocaine through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.
Cummings told Magistrate Ann Mc Lennon at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court that he tried to ship the cocaine in the ochroes in order to acquire enough money to help his ailing mother.
Handrick Cummings.
The prosecution’s case is that on August 12, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Cummings had in his possession 15.055 kilograms of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
According to Prosecutor Neville Jeffers, the defendant is the registered owner of a business under the name, “Ebiney Imports & Exports,” which is located at his home.
He said that on the day in question, Cummings went to an agent at Total Air Cargo and one at Ameri-Jet International Inc. at the Airport where he presented all the relevant documents to facilitate the export of 195 boxes of vegetables. The vegetables included; bora, ochroes and egg plants. Ranks attached to the Police Anti- Narcotic Unit examined the contents of the boxes in the presence of the defendant and discovered that 99 of those boxes with fresh ochroes were packed with cocaine.
The defendant was told of the offence and taken with the discovered drugs to Police headquarters where the suspected cocaine was weighed. Whilst being cautioned, he told the officers that he conspired with others to do the shipment. He was subsequently charged for the said offence.
Prosecutor Jeffers noted that the street value of the narcotic amounted to $13.5M and he was consequently fined three times the amount.
Cummings then told the court, “Your Worship I am very sorry for what I did. I only did it because my mother sick bad bad, bad and me ain’t really got no sort of money fuh look after she. Is me alone the burden deh pun. I try a thing but unfortunately I didn’t succeed. I am sorry.”
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