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Colombian jailed for four years over cocaine

By Staff Editor Wed, July 29 2026, 9:50 AM GMT-4

pleading guilty to trafficking 55.296 kilogrammes of cocaine, while a Venezuelan national charged alongside him was remanded.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) said that its officers intercepted a vehicle in the vicinity of the Providence Public Road, East Bank Demerara, during an operation on Friday, July 24.

A search of the vehicle uncovered 50 brick-like parcels containing cocaine.

Gerardo Martinez, a Venezuelan, and Revelino Achicue Ascue, a Colombian, were arrested and subsequently charged.

The two appeared before Magistrate Dylon Bess at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court, where Ascue pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and fined $82,944,000.

Martinez pleaded not guilty and was remanded to prison.

CANU said several other foreign and Guyanese nationals remain in custody as the investigation continues.

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