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An American cruise ship passenger who attempted to smuggle $369,000 worth of cocaine into Bermuda has been jailed for 12 years. Jane Carmichael, 52, from Hazelhurst, Georgia, had strapped the drugs to her body inside a girdle. When authorities accom...

A 52-year-old Pembroke man caught with a single “rock” of crack was fined in Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine. Anthony Brown was riding a motorcycle at the junction of Marsh Lane and North Street when he was stopped b...

Police welcome drug importer's 20 year prison sentence By Tim Smith Victor Roberts was yesterday jailed for 20 years for his plan to import $10 million worth of drugs and 200 bullets. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons sentenced Roberts to 18 years fo...

A self-employed businessman has admitted plotting to import $10 million worth of drugs and 200 bullets. Victor Roberts, 47, originally denied the offences. However, he pleaded guilty to an amended indictment yesterday on the morning his trial was due...

Latvian sailor Janis Zegelis has been jailed for 25 years for importing $48 million worth of cocaine, a gun and 192 bullets into Bermuda on his yacht. Meting out the sentence yesterday, Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves said: “This is a case of historica...

Latvian sailor Janis Zegelis has been jailed for 25 years for importing $48 million worth of cocaine, a gun and 192 bullets into Bermuda on his yacht. Meting out the sentence today, Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves said: "This is a case of historical en...

A Latvian sailor on trial over a $48 million cocaine haul told police he was to be paid $2 million to deliver it from Trinidad to Europe, a jury heard. Police and customs officers raided Janis Zegelis’s yacht, the Arturs, on August 1 last year when i...

A gun found on board a yacht along with $48 million worth of cocaine was kitted out with magazines that doubled its firepower, a jury heard. Latvian sailor Janis Zegelis is on trial at Supreme Court accused of importing and possessing the drugs and w...

A Latvian sailor got caught with $48 million worth of cocaine, a gun and 192 rounds of ammunition when he stopped in Bermuda for ship repairs, a jury heard. Janis Zegelis is said by prosecutors to have obtained the drugs in the Caribbean last summer,...

A Latvian sailor who stopped for boat repairs was found with $48 million worth of cocaine, a gun and 192 rounds of ammunition on his yacht, a jury heard today. Janis Zegelis is said by prosecutors to have obtained the drugs in the Caribbean last summ...