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Ex-Soldier jailed for trafficking in cocaine
Andre Gustav, an ex-soldier will now spend the next five years of his life behind the unwelcoming walls of prison.
Yesterday, the defendant appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennon at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, and told that coupled with his sentence, he will also pay a fine of $11,282,130.
Andre Gustav
He was found guilty of being in possession of 4.130 Kilograms of cocaine.
The case was first heard before Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry on July 5 and engaged the attention of the court for some time.
His fiancée, Brianna Rodney, a 25-year-old American social worker, was also charged. She was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and fined $30,000 after she pleaded guilty when the charge was read to her by the Chief Magistrate.
Gustavo, who was said to be the “engineer or rather the architect of the entire plan,” however, pleaded not guilty when the said charge was read to him by Chief Magistrate Beharry.
The matter was subsequently transferred to the court of Magistrate McLennon.
On July 3 last, at the Cheddi Jagan Airport, Rodney had the cocaine in her possession. The drug was baked into the false bottom of her luggage.
It was noted that Gustav had in his possession, the said narcotics, at Sheriff Street before it was handed over to his partner.
C.A.N.U’s (Customs Anti Narcotics Unit) Special Prosecutor, Oswald Massiah, said that from the suitcase containing the illegal substance, to the taxi that took Rodney to the airport, Gustav is said to have orchestrated every move with regard to the arrangement.
The suitcase containing the cocaine was locked and came with a pair of keys which Rodney had in her possession.
After the illegal substance was discovered, the six packets of cocaine were then escorted to the C.A.N.U Headquarters where additional investigations were carried out.
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