Guyanese Businessman Shervington Lovell also known as “Big Head” was slapped with an 11-year-jail sentence in the US.
Lovell, who is the Owner of the Tower Suites Hotel, admitted in a New York Court to conspiring with others to ship Cocaine to the Netherlands.
Lovell was charged in 2018 for allegedly conspiring with others to ship more than 1,300 pounds of cocaine to The Netherlands in a drug trafficking operation that involved laundered money from South Africa and other countries.
The drugs were reportedly found in the vessel on the sea during an operation in which Lovell was being watched before as he and others made rounds to different countries in an effort to plan the shipment.
Lovell while in Jamaica was arrested as he was under watch by US Agents and other local authorities in a house in Jamaica.
Lovell was later extradited back in 2018 after he was arrested with a number of other suspects by a US Anti- Drug agency during an investigation that spanned from Guyana, Jamaica, and New York.
As the allegations were put to the accused, Lovell was the only one who denied the allegation and as such was set to go on trial in 2020 but opted to change his mind and later admitted to the offence.
