Pensioner jailed for four years over bid to smuggle cocaine on to flight

Arthur Manget

A pensioner was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison and fined $26 million after he was found guilty of a cocaine trafficking charge by a city court.

Canadian citizen Arthur Manget, 69, of Old Road, Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, was handed the sentence by Magistrate Fabayo Azore.

Manget was earlier this year charged with having 9.670 kilos of cocaine in his possession on April 8th,