Three years for chef who swallowed 548g of cocaine

Anthony Gibson

A chef who was caught at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport (CJIA), Timehri trafficking over 500 grammes of cocaine, was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison, and fined $1.4 million, after he pleaded guilty to the charge of drug trafficking.

Anthony Gibson, 26, of East Ruimveldt, yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge read by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan which stated that on April 24, at the Georgetown Public Hos-pital Corporation (GPHC), he evacuated 548 grammes of cocaine which he had swallowed.

According to Police Prosecutor Arwin Moore, Gibson was an outgoing passenger at CJIA, on April 23, heading to The Bahamas on a Caribbean Airlines flight. The prosecutor said,