More than 57 kg of cocaine were discovered last Friday at the Grand-Case-l'Espérance airport. The case was unveiled last Wednesday by the Fort-de-France prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul. The cocaine was in two suitcases on a private plane that had broken down on the tarmac at Grand-Case airport.
It was the agents of the PAF (Border Police) who discovered, during an inspection, the narcotics which were in the hold of a six-seat twin-engine Aztec type coming from the neighboring island of Anguilla . The police thus recovered a total of 57,6 kg of drugs, including packaging. Police officials quickly arrested two individuals who were near the aircraft, while a third person fled after seeing the police. However, he surrendered to the police in the evening.
Of the three arrested, one of them was exonerated, and the other two, aged 23 and 26, were presented to an investigating magistrate of the JIRS (Jurisdiction Interrégionale Spécialisée) of Fort-de- France which was seized of the affair. The investigation was entrusted to OCRTIS (Central Office for the Suppression of Illicit Drug Trafficking) in the Caribbean and to PAF in Guadeloupe. The two people arrested, who are said to be the pilots, were charged with importing / exporting organized narcotic drugs, transport, acquisition, offer or transfer, possession of narcotic drugs, association of criminals with a view to committing the aforementioned crimes and offenses. , smuggling of prohibited goods dangerous to public health. Placed in pre-trial detention, the two individuals face a sentence of 30 years of criminal imprisonment, according to the prosecutor, who will have to determine the role of each person arrested, and identify the other people who are compromised in this cocaine trafficking. _RM
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