A St. Lucian national was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail and fined $1.2 million after he pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle 480 grammes of cocaine that he had ingested in pellet form out of the country.
Kendell Joseph, 26, yesterday claimed that he was told that he would not be able to leave the country if he did not swallow the cocaine.
Joseph was apprehended by officers of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU)
