Guyanese cocaine trafficker to serve five years in Jamaican prison

A Guyanese man, who was caught with 21 pounds of cocaine in an X-box game and packets of biscuits during a stopover in Jamaica, was sentenced to a five-year jail term on the island on Thursday.

Ivan Noel, 42, an electronic trader of a Georgetown address, was sentenced after a previous guilty plea for possession of cocaine, dealing in cocaine, and importing cocaine, the Jamaica Observer reported.

Noel was also fined J$1.5million during sentencing in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court in Jamaica.
He was fined J$500,000 on each of the charges with an alternative of five years in prison.

However, the sentences are to run concurrently to