A Guyanese man, Rajendra Ramrattan was on Wednesday sentenced to time served after being held at the JFK Airport in New York on April 6th this year with 550.7 grammes of cocaine in a pair of jeans.
According to court documents seen by Stabroek News, Judge Jack B. Weinstein sentenced Ramrattan to time served, effectively meaning that he spent just over three months in jail. He had pleaded guilty on June 15 to count one of a two-count indictment charging him with importation of cocaine.
Both the defence and prosecution had
