Shellon Nikita Beckles who was held at the JFK Airport in New York after disembarking a CAL flight on November 22, last year was last month sentenced to time served for swallowing 40 pellets containing 513.2 grammes of cocaine.
On April 7, 2016 Beckles pleaded guilty to the importation of cocaine.
According to US court documents seen by Stabroek News on May 9, 2016, Justice Allyne R. Ross sentenced Beckles to time served. The US had opposed a sentence of time served arguing that it would not reflect the seriousness of Beckles’ conduct: swallowing and importing more than a pound of pellets containing cocaine into the US.
