Latest update January 21st, 2025 2:07 AM
Power-lifting champ arrested at JFK with cocaine in stomach
National power lifting champion, Colin Aubrey Chesney, also known as “Mr. Clean” remains in police custody in the United States after he was busted at the John.F.Kennedy (JFK) airport with cocaine.
Colin Chesney during a power lifting session (file photo)
Chesney was detained on Saturday just as he arrived at JFK on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Guyana.
According to a copy of the court complaint document Kaieteur News was able to access, Chesney knowingly swallowed cocaine.
The document stated that on May 24 customs agents approached Chesney and requested to inspect him. During the inspection, Chesney appeared “unusually nervous. Specifically, the defendant was physically shaking and sweating heavily.”
As a result of this reaction, “Mr. Clean” was taken to a private room for a secondary search where he was found to be ‘not so clean.’
It was during that search that the nervous Guyanese sportsman told Customs Inspectors that he had swallowed “foreign bodies”.
Kaieteur News understands that Chesney was taken to a medical facility at the JFK Airport after he gave written consent for an x-ray to be conducted on him. This confirmed what the bodybuilder had earlier revealed. The x-ray of his intestinal tract showed that “foreign bodies” were lodged there.
Chesney subsequently passed 33 pellets, one of which was probed and found to contain a “white powdery substance” which was positively tested as cocaine.
He was then placed under arrest but kept in the medical facility at JFK, since investigators believe there may be more cocaine pellets in his body.
Chesney is expected to remain in the facility until he passes all of the pellets believed to be in his intestinal tract.
When contacted yesterday, President of the Guyana Amateur Power lifting Federation, Peter Green said that Chesney was not in the USA to, in anyway, represent the federation.
He said he could not comment any further as he needs to “read about what’s really happening…de chap didn’t live here nor dwell here so I don’t know why every news agency calling me…I feel like an oracle.”
Meanwhile, agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit yesterday afternoon arrested a female U.S citizen at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) after in excess of six pounds of cocaine was found in frozen fish which was in her suitcases.
The woman, who has not been identified, was an outgoing passenger on a New York bound Caribbean Airlines flight when she was searched.
Kaieteur News understands that the woman was arrested and taken into police custody.
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