AN East Coast Demerara resident who, this past week, was implicated in a US$12M cocaine haul in the United States of America (U.S.A.) has turned himself into the local authorities.

The man, since identified as Imrain Khan, reportedly turned himself into the authorities on Friday in the company of his Attorney Glenn Hanoman.
Khan is implicated as the exporter of a quantity of shrimp from Guyana but on its arrival in New York, the shipment was found to have also contained some 268 kilos of cocaine.
The whale of a catch has an estimated street value of more than US$12M.
U.S. Law Enforcement agents, acting on a tip off, reportedly secretly removed the coke-filled crustaceans and tailed the container after it cleared customs on June 15, according to U.S. Homeland Security special agent Ryan Varrone.
The container was delivered to an unidentified warehouse in Brooklyn on Monday last where agents spotted another Guyanese based businessman, Heeralall Sukdeo, “together with others…organising and supervising the unloading” of the shipment, the complaint states.
Sukdeo, 59, the owner of ‘Sukdeo Sons Fishing’, a shipping company based in Queens, New York was arrested but said he was innocent of any wrongdoing.
“Sukdeo stated that he was present only in the vicinity of the truck containing the target shipment because he was curious about its contents,” Varrone stated in the complaint.
The shipment had originated in Guyana and was addressed to “Randolph Fraser” which is apparently Sukdeo’s alias, an employee told the U.S. Federal Authorities.
He has since been held without bail.
Defense lawyer Andre Travieso said Sukdeo has never been arrested before and has since called the entire debacle a misunderstanding.
“I’m pretty confident that when all the facts come out, this was just a huge mistake,” Travieso told the New York ‘Daily News’, insisting that his client did not order the drug-crusted shrimp.
It is understood that Sukdeo has a branch of his fishing company at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara with his local address being in the neighbouring community of Annandale.