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Jamaican jailed for drug trafficking
Keisha Ann-Marie Piggott
Keisha Ann-Marie Piggott, a 25-year-old Jamaican, was jailed for four years and fined $2.4M after she pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics, yesterday.
On May 11, last, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport she attempted to export 2.3 kilograms of cocaine.
According to Police Prosecutor Robert Clement, in Magistrate Melissa Robertson’s court, on the day in question, the defendant was an outgoing passenger on a flight destined to her homeland.
The prosecutor stated that a suitcase bearing the defendant’s name and other information was about to be scanned, and it was whilst the suitcase was been scanned the narcotics was observed therein.
Clement explained that a search was done in the defendant’s presence and the narcotic was found concealed in a false bottom of the suitcase. The defendant was arrested and told of the offence. She was then charged.
Before sentence was imposed the defendant told the magistrate that she initially came from Jamaica to Guyana to uplift money.
Piggott said that after she came to Guyana a “man” told her that he was going to put the money in a suitcase because the amount exceeded the travel limit.
“The man said that it was a lot of money so he needed to put it in my suitcase in the false compartment”.
The woman claimed that after she arrived at the airport they began searching her suitcase and told that she had cocaine in her possession.
“My worship I didn’t know that cocaine was in the bag, I thought it was the money that I was supposed to take back to Jamaica” Piggott explained.
She was jailed and fined $2.4M. The prosecutor also requested that Piggott be deported after she finishes her jail term.
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