Guyanese Heeralall Sukdeo, who has been charged in the United States with attempting to smuggle 268 kilogrammes of cocaine in a shrimp shipment, was granted US$500,000 bail last Thursday after he pleaded not guilty for the second time to the charge.
This not-guilty plea by Sukdeo, who has to surrender his passport and report to officials regularly as part of the bail requirements, means that the plea negotiation between the defence and the US prosecutors fell through.
According to a complaint unsealed last month in Brooklyn Federal Court, agents secretly removed the
