Security guards get 3 years for trafficking cocaine
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) yesterday reported that two security guards have been convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment after appearing before the St James Parish Court for breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act.
The men, both of St James addresses, were convicted on June 18.
Reports from the agency are that both men were arrested and charged in 2013 during an operation involving MOCA, the Jamaica Defence Force and the narcotics division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force when an armoured vehicle in which they were travelling was intercepted in Montpelier, St James.
The vehicle was searched and 66 kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of $264 million allegedly found.
Both men have been convicted for possession of cocaine, dealing in cocaine and trafficking cocaine
They were also ordered to pay $500,000 each.
