Guyanese man held at JFK with cocaine rum cakes

The two cakes

A 30-year-old man who left Guyana on Tuesday is in prison in the United States after cocaine worth $14 million was discovered in two “rum cakes” he was transporting.

Romel Samuels, 30, was selected for examination on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after he stepped off a JetBlue flight at the JFK Airport in New York, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court, the New York Daily News reported.

Samuels, 30, was carrying a duty-free bag containing two rum cakes which