MONTEGO BAY, St James  — A man who claimed he ran away from drug couriers as soon as he landed in Jamaica, then made a stop at a club to see dancehall deejay Vybz Kartel, was sent to jail after pleading guilty to illegal entry Tuesday.

The 24-year-old unemployed Bahamian man, Ashmeade Thompson, told the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court that he made the stop to see Kartel before seeking some kind of legal status in Jamaica.

He first made his way from Montego Bay to a club in New Kingston where he heard Kartel frequented, even while he told the court he was running for his life from men who had forced him to come to Jamaica on a boat to pick up drugs.

He said he was threatened by drug dealers who frequented his mother’s shop in the Bahamas and was recruited to travel with two others to Jamaica.

He said he landed in Montego Bay on April 27, but soon after fled from the men and found his way to Kingston.

While there he said he sought help and was introduced to someone whom he described as an immigration supervisor who stamped his passport while they were in a Chinese restaurant on Knutsford Boulevard.

He pleaded guilty with explanation to uttering a forged document and illegal entry.

Acting Senior Resident Magistrate Carolyn Tie sentenced him to two months in prison on each count.