Man held at JFK with cocaine in rum

A man, who travelled from Guyana to the US last Monday and was found with 8.206 kg of cocaine hidden in four bottles of rum at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York, has been granted US$75,000 bail.

Wilton Sinclair was charged with possession of cocaine on November 18 before Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in the US Eastern District Court.

According to court documents,