U.S. deports drug convict Peter Morgan
Convicted drug trafficker, Peter Morgan is back home
Convicted drug trafficker, Peter Morgan is back home

Convicted drug trafficker Peter Morgan who was released from a prison in the United States on Monday was deported to Guyana on Wednesday, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has confirmed.
Morgan’s deportation come after he was handed over to United States Immigration and officials and subsequently kept in custody and then placed on a plane back home, all consistent with deportations procedures.Blanhum explained that the Guyana Police Force received Morgan yesterday and he was processed immediately and certain information taken from him. According to him, the convicted drug trafficker will now be monitored as part of the Crimes Prevention Act which allows the police to keep a close watch on those who would have been deported to this country.
Additionally, Morgan is expected to visit the criminal Investigation Department once a month, also in keeping with his deportation order. As to how the police will treat with him traveling out of Guyana is not yet clear but what is clear that the man is not likely to be able to return to the United States since his incarceration was as a result of him trafficking cocaine into that country. Morgan a close associate to former drug kingpin Roger Khan who was also nabbed and now serving time in a United States prison was sentenced to ten years in prison back in 2010. At the time was facing three counts of conspiring to import, possess and distribute five kilogrammes of cocaine between December 2001 and August 2003 into the United States. He was arrested in March 2007 in Trinidad by Trinidadian and US authorities while he was in-transit at the airport and was later extradited to the US on August 23, 2007.
Court papers had listed one of the charges against Morgan as that between October 1, 2001 and August 31, 2003, he knowingly and intentionally conspired with David Narine, Susan Narine, Hung-Fung Mar and other persons unknown, to traffic in cocaine by importation. The second charge was that some time between December 1, 2001 and August 31, 2003, he trafficked in cocaine by importation.
Meanwhile, according to a Stabroek News report back in 2010 US Prosecutor Shannon Jones had insisted that Morgan was a supervisor in a ring that included his family members. At that time, the drug dealer told the court that he fully understood what he was doing and he was asked to explain at his plea hearing what he did. He explained that between December 2001 and August 2003, he conspired with David Narine to transport cocaine in and out of Guyana and that he was fully aware of his actions and his conduct. He said he agreed with Narine to import cocaine into the US. Narine is expected to be sentenced next week, after also pleading guilty. He had been brought to the US from Guadeloupe, where he was serving a drug trafficking sentence, several years earlier.

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