US Judge Paul G. Gardephe last week ordered a pre-sentence probation report for Tower Suites co-owner Shervington ‘Big Head’ Lovell following his guilty plea to count seven of his drug trafficking indictment.
Lovell, who has been in a US jail since 2018, pleaded guilty to the count last week before Justice Gardephe and he was represented by attorney Eon Smith. He is expected to be sentenced on April 16th, 2021 but before this a pre-sentence report will be submitted to the court.
Count Seven of the indictment states that from about April 2018 to July 2018 in Guyana, Jamaica, Colombia on the high seas and elsewhere, Lovell along with three other named men and others who are known and unknown intentionally and knowingly combined, conspired, confederated and agreed with each other to violate the maritime drug and enforcement law of the US.
While on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the US it was said that they knowingly and intentionally possessed with intent to distribute a controlled substance in violation of Title 46, United States Code, Section 70503 (a) (1). The controlled substance involved in the offence was 5 kilograms and more of mixtures and substances containing a detectable trace of cocaine in violation of US laws.
As a result of committing the offence, Lovell and the other accused are subject to forfeiture to the US of all controlled substances, all raw material products of any kind, all listed chemicals, all drug manufacturing equipment, all encapsulating machines and all gelatin capsules. Also all conveyances, including aircraft, vehicles or vessels, all books, records and research, including formulas, microfilms, tapes and data. Properties, including any right title and interest, cash and any firearms are all to be forfeited.
Lovell was nabbed in 2018 following months of investigation and planning by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, which saw him meeting with confidential sources (CSs) in Georgetown and Jamaica to allegedly plan a cocaine shipment to the Netherlands.
It was following the interception of a cocaine-laden vessel, 350 miles off Diamond Valley, Barbados on July 27th, 2018 that a sealed US arrest warrant was issued for Lovell. He and his co-conspirators were allegedly hoping to traffic the 624 kilogrammes of cocaine to the Netherlands via the Azores.
Lovell and Colombian Ricardo Ramirez were arrested along with a Surinamese national on October 25th, 2018, at the Norman Manley International Airport in Jamaica on drug trafficking charges.
