A 44-year-old Lusignan, East Coast Demerara (ECD) man was on Monday sentenced to serve four years imprisonment along with a fine of $3.5 million for trafficking cocaine.

Eduardo Alexander Moore was arraigned before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Moore denied that on February 24, 2023, at Albert Street, between Regent and Charlotte Streets, Georgetown, he had 2.4 kilogrammes of cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Moore, who was recently released from prison for a similar offence, was sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined $3,573,000.

According to a release from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), officers were conducting an operation in the vicinity of Albert Street, when Moore was intercepted and searched by the ranks, who found two bricks of cocaine in his haversack.

He was later escorted to CANU Headquarters with the narcotic, which was weighed and examined.

In 2019, Moore was arrested and charged with trafficking 117 pounds of marijuana. He was later sentenced to three years imprisonment.