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Popular businessman found guilty of trafficking cocaine
Kaieteur News – Popular businessman, Michael Morgan, was on Tuesday found guilty of trafficking some 3.2 kilograms of cocaine.
According to a statement from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) Morgan was found guilty by Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond Magistrates’ Court.
“Morgan was found guilty and sentencing was deferred to the 14th July, 2023 pending a probation report,” CANU said in its statement.
Found guilty of Trafficking Cocaine
The guilty verdict came one year after his arrest at his residence, Ixora Avenue, Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Morgan was arrested in June last year after CANU officers, acting on intelligence, conducted a search at his home where a quantity of cocaine and 27 nine mm rounds, one .32 Taurus firearm, along with one magazine, and 25 matching .32 rounds were found.
The businessman was the lone occupant at the premises at the time of the search.
As such, Morgan was arrested and escorted to the CANU headquarters along with the firearm, ammunition, and narcotics. CANU reported that the narcotics were tested and confirmed to be cocaine with a total weight of 3.27 kg and a street value of approximately $3.5million.
Morgan is reportedly still on trial for possession of an illegal firearm and ammunition. Head of CANU, James Singh said that the firearm and ammunition charge will be filed by the police and not CANU.
Notably, Morgan is the brother of Peter Morgan, who was deported to Guyana in 2015 after completing a 10-year sentence in the United States of America for drug trafficking.
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