PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Appearing Chief Justice of the Peace Chris Tine Charles has accepted the extradition of an alleged drug trafficker who is needed in the USA on suspicion of smuggling a million US {dollars} in cocaine and heroin into that nation.
Justice of the Peace Charles knowledgeable Guppy, who was arrested final September by members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) with the help of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), of his proper to use for a writ of habeas corpus to problem the legality of his detention. He has 16 days to take action.
Guppy, 47, is dealing with 11 prices of heroin and cocaine price a million US {dollars} in Pennsylvania. He additionally faces native prices of possessing a firearm, ammunition, and cocaine. Guppy has additionally been denied bail on these prices.
The costs stemmed from gadgets purportedly found at his rented house at Ascot Highway, Goodwood Park, Westmoorings, west of right here, and his automobile on September 26, final yr.
The appearing Chief Justice of the Peace stated she was glad that native attorneys representing the USA had met the necessities set out below the Extradition (Commonwealth and Territories) Act to have Guppy extradited to face trial.
She did so in the future after overruling a no-case submission made by Guppy’s attorneys, Wayne Sturge, Mario Merritt, and Randall Raphael, who opposed the USA’ utility to extradite their consumer.
In dismissing the no-case submission, the Justice of the Peace stated she had fastidiously examined the proof offered throughout the proceedings and was glad that attorneys who represented the requesting State had made out a prima facie case towards Guppy to have him extradited for the offenses as acknowledged within the Authority to Proceed (ATP).
The US Embassy right here stated that on the time of his arrest, Guppy confronted prices from the US District Court docket for the Jap District of Pennsylvania.
In a press release, the embassy stated the Trinidad and Tobago Transnational Organised Crime Unit (TOCU) acquired help from its DEA officers within the inquiry that resulted in Guppy’s detention.
Nationwide Safety Minister Fitzgerald Hinds expressed gratitude to the DEA and the TOCU, saying, “US DEA brokers in Philadelphia and the US Embassy began engaged on this case with us in 2020, culminating on this important arrest and extradition order.
“I’m gratified that our glorious cooperation has led to this arrest. We rely on our American regulation enforcement companions to help us in making Trinidad and Tobago safer for our communities,” he added.
US Ambassador Candace Bond stated she is “pleased with the painstaking work the US Embassy’s DEA brokers do each single day to assist finish drug trafficking and to strengthen citizen safety for the individuals of Trinidad and Tobago.”
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