Dave Gavin Welcome, who was booked to leave on a flight to New York yesterday morning, was hours later sentenced to a four year jail term after pleading guilty to attempting to smuggle cocaine out of the country.
Welcome, 42, of 655 East Ruimveldt, a seaman, admitted to having in his possession 2.67 kilogrammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
“I take a chance for the sake of me family, because I de going through some financial difficulties. I never think that I woulda get ketch, but it didn’t succeed,” Welcome told the court before sentencing, which was
