US-based Guyanese pleads guilty to cocaine trafficking, jailed for four years

A US-based Guyanese who pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle over 13 pounds of cocaine in milk packets into the United States was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison, while his alleged accomplice was remanded following a not guilty plea.

Fifty-two-year-old Cranson Carlson Henry of Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara and also of Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, appeared before the Diamond\Grove Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where he was also fined a $30,000, due to the prosecutor failing to present a certificate of value for the narcotics.