(Jamaica Observer) Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has two previous convictions in the United States, the Justice Department revealed yesterday in a document related to his guilty plea on racketeering and conspiracy charges.
However, the convictions will not factor in the sentence he is scheduled to receive from US District Judge Robert P Patterson on December 8 because they were committed 10 years before the offences now before the court.
According to the document signed by Coke, his attorneys and US law enforcement officials, Coke was convicted of possession of stolen property in Wake County Supreme Court (North Carolina) “on or about May 9, 1988”, and received a suspended sentence of three years’ imprisonment.
“The defendant’s criminal history record reflects that he was arrested on this charge in February 1988 and given a suspended sentence in May 1988,” the document said.
The second conviction, the document revealed, was delivered “on or about December 16, 1988” in the Eastern District of North Carolina. The charge in that case was transportation of a firearm in interstate commerce by an illegal alien.
In the months leading up to his capture by the Jamaican police in June 2010 several people had argued that Coke had never before set foot in the United States.
