A Guyanese man who was held at the JFK Airport in New York last September with what was later determined to be cocaine in rum has been jailed for 27 months in what the US said was a long-running narcotics importation conspiracy.
According to court documents seen by Stabroek News, Cleveland Charles, 32, was on June 30, 2016 sentenced to 27 months each on four counts but the sentences will run concurrently. The judge in the case was Roslynn R. Mauskopf.
The 27-month sentence was what the US government had been seeking as it had argued that Charles had been part of a
