Jamaican Leebert Ramcharan led a sophisticated drug smuggling organization that received as many as 15,000 kilos of cocaine from the north coast of Colombia from 1998 to 2004, prosecutors said.
Two Caribbean smugglers who were designated by the White House as international drug kingpins were convicted on smuggling charges and could face life in prison, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday.The shipments were stored in Jamaica, later sent to the Bahamas and then transported to the U.S. market, they said.Ramcharan was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to import and conspiracy to possess narcotics with the intent to distribute, the Miami U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.
In a separate case, Bahamian Samuel Knowles, who was extradited to Florida in 2006, was found guilty of two drug counts and ordered to forfeit nearly $14 million of illegal proceeds for bringing thousands of kilos of cocaine to the United States in 1995 and 1996, prosecutors said.Several years ago, the Bush administration put both men on a U.S. blacklist that barred American banks from dealing with suspected international drug traffickers or their companies in an attempt to cripple their narcotics businesses.Both were scheduled for sentencing on May 23 and faced possible life prison terms.
Leebert Ramcharan ,Samuel Knowles Two Caribbean smugglers who were designated by the White House as international drug kingpins
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