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Drugs in goat meat, crotch
Trinis held at JFK Airport
By Mark Bassant CCN Senior Multimedia Investigative Journalist
Story Created: Apr 3, 2014 at 10:32 PM ECT
Story Updated: Apr 4, 2014 at 10:28 AM ECT
TWO Trinidad nationals were allegedly held by US Customs officers with close to $2 million worth of cocaine, four days apart, on Caribbean Airlines flights entering John F Kennedy Airport in New York.
The first Trinidadian was held with cocaine hidden in frozen goat meat in his suitcase while the other had it concealed in his pants crotch.
Court documents obtained exclusively by CCN, through the US District Court, Eastern District of New York, outlined in detail the arrest of both men in separate court documents.
Trinidadian Yudistir Maharaj, according to the documents, left aboard a Caribbean Airlines flight from Piarco International Airport, destined for JFK International Airport in New York, on March 20, and was caught by the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine into that country.
According to court documents, Maharaj “did knowingly and intentionally attempt to import a controlled substance into the United States”.
Maharaj, according to the complaint, was selected for an examination by US Customs after arriving on Caribbean Airlines flight 520.
Special agent Michael Martinez indicated Maharaj “presented a checked-in, large black suitcase and a laptop bag for inspection.
When the officers examined the suitcase, they found three packages in the suitcase, which Maharaj claimed “in sum and substance contained frozen cooked goat meat. The three packages were X-rayed revealing a square-like object inside of each one”.
The CBP officers later took Maharaj into a private room and, according to Martinez in the court docket, “drilled into the packa-ges and discovered a pow-
dery-white substance, which later tested positive for the presence of cocaine.”
In total, 3,335.2 grammes of cocaine were seized from food containers in Maharaj’s luggage.
This works out to approximately just over three kilogrammes of cocaine, with an estimated street value of $1.2 million to $1.8 million.
Maharaj, in his statement, claimed he did not know the narcotics were in his suitcase.
Four days after that incident, another Trinidadian, Alister King, was also held for allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine into New York after leaving Trinidad aboard Caribbean Airlines flight 520.
King, who was stopped for a routine search, according to US special agent Derek Bergman, “appeared nervous”.
King’s personal baggage was searched and it was during this search, King appeared nervous, Bergman stated.
Bergman revealed in the court document a full-body search was authorised and “a bulky item was discovered in the defendant’s groin area”.
Officers later found three packages containing a white, powdery substance —which was later tested and found to be cocaine.
The three packages weighed some 536.9 grammes, just over a kilogramme—with a street value of $400,000 to $600,000.
King told the US authorities he “was supposed to be paid 30 per cent of the proceeds after the cocaine was sold”.
sonygoup wrote:Saw this and found it interesting that the found em days apart from each other tho and they used the dumbest way to hide drugs
I do wonder all of this drug smuggling is gonna impact us later on...
cinco wrote:sonygoup wrote:Saw this and found it interesting that the found em days apart from each other tho and they used the dumbest way to hide drugs
I do wonder all of this drug smuggling is gonna impact us later on...
it does only affect people who have something to hide
sonygoup wrote:cinco wrote:sonygoup wrote:Saw this and found it interesting that the found em days apart from each other tho and they used the dumbest way to hide drugs
I do wonder all of this drug smuggling is gonna impact us later on...
it does only affect people who have something to hide
Was talking bout the aspect of us having a decreased amount of us visa being given to locals or something because they would eventually do something!
cinco wrote:sonygoup wrote:cinco wrote:sonygoup wrote:Saw this and found it interesting that the found em days apart from each other tho and they used the dumbest way to hide drugs
I do wonder all of this drug smuggling is gonna impact us later on...
it does only affect people who have something to hide
Was talking bout the aspect of us having a decreased amount of us visa being given to locals or something because they would eventually do something!
visas eh free
it is win win win for them
pay yuh 150usd to the US gov get yuh VISA buy a plane ticket and spend money go to d states an get hold and deported. TSA lookin good cuz dey doin dey job well.
Les Bain wrote:If it means TSA agents would fondle my groin, that's ok.
TSA agents generally sexy, right?
RoTaRyBoYz wrote:I guess what's why CBP brace me at JFK 3wks ago, by the baggage area.. A group of them was talking and when I got within 6ft of the group, one if them said "Sir, could you step over here please... Where you coming from?.. Please follow that officer".. First time this ever happen to me. They open up my bags & poked at it with a ice pick.. Then the officer saw a race car magazine & car shirts, so he gone into a car convo for ah 10mins while I pack back my sheit...
Issa good thing me eh get strip search or cavity search.. That woulda been pressure lol
pjfred wrote:Vote next year for the gov't of ur choice but know they all the same except that some only support black people and others try to break the barriers.
Maybe the goat swallowed it.
A man from Trinidad who claims he doesn't know how 7 pounds of cocaine got into the goat meat in his luggage is being held on drug-smuggling charges, authorities said Monday.
Yudistir Maharaj was stopped for a security inspection at Kennedy Airport on March 20 after he arrived on a flight from Port of Spain, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Maharaj, 24, handed over a laptop computer and a black suitcase. Inside the suitcase were three packages of frozen goat meat. When the meat was X-rayed, inspectors noticed three square objects inside, according to the complaint.
The inspectors drilled through the meat and found white powder that tested positive for cocaine.
Maharaj, who said he is a construction worker, was interviewed after being given a Miranda warning and professed no knowledge of the drugs, Homeland Security special agent Michael Martinez said.
"This latest seizure demonstrates the vigilance of our Customs & Border Protection officers and their excellence in detecting those who would try to smuggle these illegal substances," New York Director Robert Perez said.
bluespeed wrote:RoTaRyBoYz wrote:I guess what's why CBP brace me at JFK 3wks ago, by the baggage area.. A group of them was talking and when I got within 6ft of the group, one if them said "Sir, could you step over here please... Where you coming from?.. Please follow that officer".. First time this ever happen to me. They open up my bags & poked at it with a ice pick.. Then the officer saw a race car magazine & car shirts, so he gone into a car convo for ah 10mins while I pack back my sheit...
Issa good thing me eh get strip search or cavity search.. That woulda been pressure lol
yea...because to pull a rotor out your ass
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