The young Guyanese who was nabbed in the US last week with cocaine in an ivory-coloured towel and several knitted doilies appeared in a New York Court and was remanded to prison.

According to court documents seen by this newspaper, Nigel Enmore appeared before Justice Viktor V Pohorelsky after he was arrested last Wednesday allegedly attempting to import 5,203.3 grammes of cocaine into the US.

According to Jeremiah Callaghan, a special agent with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), last Wednesday Enmore arrived at the John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) aboard Delta Airlines flight 384 from Guyana.

When customs and border protection officers approached him for a customs examination, he was in possession of one black carry-on bag and one black suitcase that had been checked during the flight. During the questioning, he indicated that both of the bags were his and that he had personally packed them. An officer examined his bags and found that they contained, among other things, an ivory-coloured towel and several knitted doilies that appeared “unusually stiff and also had a strange odour.”
The young man was then taken to a search room where a sample of the towel and doilies field-tested positive for cocaine; he was then placed under arrest.

Enmore appeared before the judge unrepresented and was remanded to custody.