The Narcotics Police charged three men in connection with the seizure of over 900 kilograms of cocaine in Black River, St. Elizabeth on Monday, November 22 .
Charged are:
• Forty-year-old Daniel Hanson,
7:50 pm, Tue December 22, 2020
The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) and UK law enforcement agents are investigating a suspected international cocaine ring in which drug traffickers in Jamaica are using the local postal service to transport cocaine to the United Kingdom.
The network was reportedly discovered several months ago after packages with cocaine, destined for the UK, were intercepted in the local postal service.
Thirty-four year-old cashier Yasheka James, 31-year-old farmer Ashane Bennett, and 37-year-old Leroy Adamson - all of St. Elizabeth addresses - were charged on December 14 with drug trafficking and conspiracy.
They appeared before the St. Elizabeth Parish Court last Thursday where they were each offered bail in the sum of $400,000.
Laden
Dancehall entertainer Laden was fined $2,000 when he appeared in the St Elizabeth Parish Court on Wednesday to answer to the charge of disobeying a constable s command.
Laden, whose given name is Okeefe Aarons, pleaded guilty to the charge, apologised to the court and to the police officer, and was fined $2,000 or five days imprisonment.
He and his two co-accused also appeared in court to answer to the charge of breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act, but the Clerk of Courts offered no evidence in relation to the matter, so the charge was withdrawn.
Aarons returns to the Gun Court Division of the St Elizabeth Circuit Court on December 15, 2020, for sentencing in relation to illegal possession of firearm and ammunition charges, for which he pleaded guilty last week along with the charge of failing to stop on the request of the police in relation to an incident in October.