U.S. woman jailed, three Guyanese remanded
UNITED States (U.S.) citizen Trevi Hall was sentenced to four years imprisonment yesterday for drug trafficking.
In addition, she was fined $30,000, after she pleaded guilty to the offence, before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
The prisoner, 50, admitted that on February 22, at Cheddi Jagan International Airport, she had 4.442 kilogrammes of cocaine for the purpose.
When the magistrate informed her of the penalty for the crime, Hall, who was unrepresented by counsel, said she accepted that she had the cocaine but maintained it was not to traffick and burst into tears after sentence was pronounced.
Three Guyanese, busted in Comfort Suites Hotel, were refused bail in the same court and remanded to prison.
Shawn Fahim, Shantell Mansfield and Wilfred Reece (no addresses given) pleaded not guilty to being in possession, on February 23, of four kilogrammes 432 grammes of cocaine, for the purpose, in the hotel.
Fahim, who is Nigerian, was represented by Mr. Nigel Hughes and other attorney-at-law Mr. Hukumchand appeared for Reece.
Hughes told the court the narcotic was found in a room of the hotel and, Hukumchand, who concurred, said Reece is a taxi driver who went there to collect Fahim.
The trio will remain incarcerated through February 28.