Jailed for cocaine errand
JAMAICAN Zackre Ameago Montaque was yesterday jailed for three years on conviction for drug trafficking.

Before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle, the prisoner, 26, of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, pleaded guilty to having trafficked 250 grammes of cocaine on Christmas Day at Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

Particulars of the offence said he attempted to export the narcotic.
Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) Prosecutor Oswald Massiah said the convict entered Guyana legally last October 30 and spent most of the time on Essequibo Coast, holidaying with some persons he met in Jamaica.

But he left the ‘Cinderella County’ on December 22 and was a guest at a city hotel until December 25, when he checked in at the airport with a black suitcase, for a Caribbean Airlines flight to Jamaica via Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Massiah said the cocaine was found concealed in spray containers.
Montaque alleged that the Police beat him to make him disclose the real culprit behind the crime and wrote a statement which he refused to sign because he cannot read well.

The prisoner said a man named Devon went to his home in Jamaica and, after seeing his living conditions, promised to make life better for him if he did an errand.

Montaque said Devon gave him the travel ticket and told him to deliver the parcel to another man named Harold who, in turn, handed him the sprays here to take back and he did not know what was inside the containers.

“I did it because I wanted the money at the moment,” Montaque confessed, telling the magistrate that he is wiser now.
He was also fined $10,000.