Referring to Tower Suites co-owner Shervington ‘Big Head’ Lovell as a “a sophisticated international drug trafficker” the US Government has asked that he be sentenced to between 17 and 21 years in prison as he invested some US$100,000 to traffic in more than one tonne of cocaine from South America to Europe.
“The defendant is a large-scale international narcotics trafficker who led a conspiracy to ship enormous quantities of deadly drugs across an ocean for distribution in Europe and elsewhere. The defendant, and the other leaders of this conspiracy, endangered the crew members’ lives to transport narcotics that would endanger even more lives once distributed. The defendant does not meaningfully dispute that he did all of this for his own monetary gain. The defendant makes no meaningful attempt to justify his actions, in spite of his obvious assets and advantages in life,” United States Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a 10-page submission to US Judge Paul G. Gardephe.
The attorney for Lovell has asked not only for the judge to be lenient with his client but for him to serve his time at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Facility in New Jersey to afford him the opportunity to pursue vocational training in horticulture.