– NY court accepts guilty plea

Drug accused Guyanese Raffel Christopher Douglas is to be deported shortly, after an NY court accepted a guilty plea he made to a charge of conspiring to distribute cocaine in the US using a telephone.

The order was made yesterday at the New York Eastern District Court during a hearing that was set to decide the Guyanese’s fate after he pleaded guilty to the charge late last month. As a result of his guilty plea, the US government dropped four other drug-related charges against the Guyanese and taking into consideration a previous imprisonment in Canada and the time he spent behind bars since his apprehension in 2005, he was released without any sentence.  …..