The Jamaican pleaded guilty, before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle, to being in possession of 516 grammes of cocaine for the purpose, on February 13, at Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

Police Inspector Denise Griffith, prosecuting, said the prisoner was an outgoing passenger on Caribbean Airlines flight 414 to Jamaica when he aroused suspicion.

The Prosecutor said Barrette was questioned and, based on information gathered, taken to Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where he, as a patient, excreted 45 pellets of the narcotic.

The convict begged for mercy, telling the Court he was not sober at the time he swallowed the substance as the day before was his birthday.
Barrette was also fined $10,000.