Tower Suites co-owner Shervington Lovell has been extradited to the United States, just over a month after his arrest in Jamaica.
A Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) official last evening confirmed that Lovell, known as ‘Big Head,’ was extradited sometime during yesterday morning.
Lovell and Colombian Ricardo Ramirez were arrested along with a Surinamese national on October 25th at the Norman Manley International Airport in Jamaica on drug trafficking charges.
A US arrest warrant was out for the Guyanese businessman since August following months of investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Agency which entailed him meeting with confidential sources in Georgetown and Jamaica as they allegedly planned a cocaine shipment to the Netherlands.
According to the complaint filed against Lovell, in or about April and July 2018 in Guyana, Jamaica and Colombia on the high seas and elsewhere, he and others intentionally and knowingly combined, conspired, confederated, and agreed together and with each other to violate the maritime drug enforcement laws of the US. It further says they knowingly intended to use a vessel to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance in violation of Title 46 of the United States Code Section 70503 (a) (1).