Bermudan fugitive held here
Anthony Quinton Beech, a 44-year-old painter from Bermuda who is wanted on drug charges in the United States, was held last Thursday by members of the Fugitive Apprehension Team and the Organised Crime Unit.
Beech, who was nabbed at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, is wanted by US law enforcement authorities in the northern district of Georgia for conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine and marijuana. He is alleged to have operated a smuggling ring between Atlanta, Georgia and Miami, Florida in the United States and between Jamaica and Bermuda between 2001 and 2003.
The Bermudan, who gave the lawmen an Alexander Road, Devon Shore address in Bermuda, was indicted in the US on February 26, 2003 and scheduled to return to court in March, but instead fled to Jamaica in July 2006.
He is now scheduled to appear on September 25, 2006 in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court for extradition proceedings.
