Vincy pilot jailed for drugs in Barbados

10.AUG.07

An off-duty Vincentian pilot who donned his uniform to gain access through the customs and immigration department of the Grantley Adams International Airport while carrying a suitcase of marijuana, was jailed for 18 months on Thursday, August 2 in Barbados.{{more}}

Alford Adolphus Pierre, 31, of Chapman Village, New Grounds, who works with Windward Air, pleaded guilty to carrying 20 – 1/4 pounds of ganja when Drug Squad officers caught up with him at a bus-stop just outside the Barbados airport on Tuesday, July 31, 2007.

He was intercepted by Drug Squad personnel and a search of his luggage found the four packages.

Pierre, who faced four charges – possession, trafficking, possession with intent to supply, and importation – was given two 18-month concurrent terms for trafficking and importation, and convicted, reprimanded and discharged on the other two.



Meanwhile, 37-year-old Stephen Leonard Agard, (right) of No. 10 Valley, St. George, Barbados, a watersports operator, was fined $50,000 in connection with the incident.

If Agard does not pay the fine in one year, he will be jailed for two years.

The sum of $11,000, which was in Agard’s possession when he attempted to pick up Pierre outside the airport, was also confiscated.

The matter was heard before Magistrate Robert Simmons in the District “B” Magistrate Court in Barbados.(Weekend) Nation)