Self-confessed, convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram was last week held by United States authorities after serving jail time here and traveling to the country he fought extradition from many years ago.
According to the US Bureau of Prisons, the 45-year-old Dataram is currently being held at a Brooklyn New York Metropolitan Detention Center.
Dataram is a naturalized US citizen.
In October of 2016, days after being handed over by the Suriname police to Guyanese law enforcement after being on the run, Dataram pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, to be added to the five years that had been handed down a month before.
In September of 2016, he was slapped with a five-year sentence in his absence, for drug possession and also fined $164M.
He had been told that the three and half years sentence would not be served concurrently as he would have had to complete the five years and then begin that sentence.
The sentence was for attempting to defeat the administration of the law to avoid the consequences, forging a passport and leaving the country without presenting himself to an immigration officer; all of which he pleaded guilty to.
From 2007 to 2010, Dataram had four provisional warrants issued for his arrest, for the purpose of extraditing him to the US for cocaine smuggling offences. He had fought each one successfully.
It is unclear why knowing that he had outstanding arrest warrants in the US that the convict returned there.
