Serial narco-smuggler, 62, to know fate next week

COME December 22, Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan is expected to make her ruling in the drug-trafficking case against 62-year-old Dennis Jones who is on trial for attempting to smuggle over 23 pounds of cocaine through the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC).

On Tuesday Jones led his defence while his attorney Eusi Anderson made his submission, which was followed by a reply by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) Prosecutor Kunyo Sandiford.
The indictment against Jones alleges that on January 18, 2017, at the GPO he had 10.618kg of cocaine, which he attempted to post out of Guyana for the purpose of trafficking.

Anti-narcotics agents intercepted a box containing a total of nine kilos in Baking / Custard Powder bags and 1.62 kilos of liquid cocaine in two Banko wine bottles found in mail destined for Canada. The package was due to leave Guyana on January 20 via a Fly Jamaica flight in a mail consignment.

Jones, who was deported from the United States for drug trafficking, was allegedly busted at his South Ruimveldt home hiding in the ceiling after CANU had made the discovery.
Jones is currently on trial before City Magistrate Fabayo Azore for forging a national identification card in the name of Josiah Jones knowing it to be false between September 1, 2016 and September 30, 2016 in Georgetown.

Back in 2012, Jones had pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in jail after he was busted attempting to ship over 700 pounds of cocaine to Niger, West Africa. The cocaine was hidden in soap powder packets.

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