A Guyanese man was last Tuesday busted at the JFK International Airport after he attempted to smuggle in 6,589.1 grammes of cocaine, which was packaged into small balls and dunked into a bottle of pepper sauce.
Joseph Alpha Lewis told authorities at the airport that the small balls in the pepper sauce were tamarind balls but when officials probed one of them, a white powdery substance was revealed.
Lewis has been charged and refused bail.
Lewis travelled to the US last Tuesday on Caribbean Airlines Flight 524 from Guyana and, according to Special Agent Shannon McFadden with the United States Department of Homeland Security, he was selected by a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer for examination. He presented a brown American Tourister suitcase and a
