KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Apr 26, CMC – The two foreign nationals. Including a Grenadian, are to re-appear in court here on Thursday after they were denied bail on charges of being in possession of 434kg of cocaine.
Grenadian Alister Haynes and Venezuelan Frank Garcia have been charged indictably in connection with the cocaine haul that law enforcement officers said was made at Cumberland last Monday.
Police say that the two men illegally entered St Vincent and the Grenadines’ territorial waters on a yacht, which they anchored at Cumberland and that they were arrested and the yacht seized and taken to the Coast Guard base, where a search was conducted and containers and packages with the drugs which amounted to 434,268 grammes.
Garcia and Haynes were jointly charged that on April 20, 2026, at Calliaqua, they had in their possession 434,268 grammes of cocaine for the purpose of drug-trafficking. They were also charged with attempting to import the drug and had it in their possession with intent to supply to another.
The two men were face a charge of breaching the country’s immigration regulations by entering the island at Cumberland, a place other than a port of entry. On that charge, Haynes pleaded not guilty while Garcia pleaded guilty.
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