Former special constable Jermain Bristol was yesterday sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment on a charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine that was intercepted in rum bottles at the John F Kennedy airport in New York.
Bristol, who was employed at the Special Constabulary for over a year and assigned to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA), appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at a city court yesterday for sentencing on his trafficking in cocaine charge. Magistrate Latchman found the defendant guilty of the charge, to which he had pleaded not guilty, sentenced him to 60 months’ imprisonment and ordered him to pay a fine of $30,000.
When given the opportunity to speak, Bristol told the court that he was