Guyanese singer, Mark Ferdinand who was held in New York in February, 2015 on a cocaine charge spent seven months in jail before being released after a court agreed that he be sentenced to time served.
Ferdinand had been held in an elaborate plan hatched by US law enforcement authorities. He subsequently pleaded guilty in a plea bargain arrangement to an attempt to possess cocaine with intent to distribute. The US government had sought to have him imprisoned for as many as 57 months but a plea by his counsel Steven L Brounstein setting out Ferdinand’s background and his charitable works appeared to have convinced the court otherwise. The sentence of time served was handed down on September 24 last year and the period of incarceration ended on September 29, 2015.
Ferdinand was busted at the JFK International Airport after he travelled to the US to
