A Ghanaian and his Guyanese accomplice have been handed prison terms of 15 and 20 years respectively for importing cocaine into Ghana.
The High Court in Accra which convicted Seth Grant, the Ghanaian and Miller Ronald O’Neil, his Guyanese accomplice and Captain of the Guyanese ship Atiyah, George-Town, aboard which the narcotic was seized, handed the sentences on the guilty pleas of the convicts.
A Ghanaian and his Guyanese accomplice have been handed prison terms of 15 and 20 years respectively for importing cocaine into Ghana.
The High Court in Accra which convicted Seth Grant, the Ghanaian and Miller Ronald O’Neil, his Guyanese accomplice and Captain of the Guyanese ship Atiyah, George-Town, aboard which the narcotic was seized, handed the sentences on the guilty pleas of the convicts.
They pleaded guilty to engaging in criminal conspiracy to commit an offence by engaging in business relating to narcotic drugs; importation of narcotic drugs without lawful authority and possessing narcotic drugs without lawful authority.
Three other suspects Perceval Curt, Samuel Mornty and Saint Praimchad who were arrested along with the convicts would face full trial beginning January 10 after pleading not guilty to the same charges.
The five were arrested in the Western region aboard a Guyanese ship, “ATIYAH, George-Town”, containing 21 bags of substances with a street value of 50 million US dollars.
The ship was intercepted following a tip-off from Ghana’s international security partners.
The ship was traveling from Guyana when it was arrested and escorted by Ghana Naval Ship, Yaa Asantewaa, to the Sekondi Naval Base.
