A mason, who was charged yesterday alongside the son of accused cocaine trafficker Andre ‘Zipper’ Gomes and another man, has been sentenced to four years in jail and fined over $6 million after he admitted to trafficking almost five pounds of cocaine.
Brian Fowler, 33, of Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, pleaded guilty to a charge which stated that he, along with Mark Gomes, 33, of Campbellville, and Mohamed Kadir, 37, of Goed Fortuin, trafficked 2.50 kilos, equivalent to 4.9 pounds, of cocaine, on March 29th at Sheriff Street.
Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) prosecutor Konyo Sandiford noted that on March 29th, at about 7.45 pm, CANU observed two motor vehicles, one driven by Kadir and the other driven by Gomes. She said that Kadir left his vehicle with a yellow Shell gas bottle and took it to PMM 5807, where Gomes was seated in the driver’s side. Fowler was observed as a passenger in Gomes’ vehicle when CANU ranks confronted them.
According to Sandiford,
