Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A JAMAICAN policeman is to be extradited along with five other men, including 52-year-old St. Ann businessman Norris 'Deedo' Nembhard, to face drug charges in the United States.
The other men for whom extradition orders were made yesterday are: Colombian barber Luis Miguel Arias and Jamaicans Robroy Williams, also called 'Spy', Glenford Williams, Vivian Dalley and Corporal Herbert Henry.
The men have been in custody since April last year awaiting an extradition hearing.
They are wanted in the U.S. to face charges for conspiracy to export cocaine to the U.S. between 1998 and 2004. They were arrested as part of a major international crackdown in drug trafficking among the Jamaican, United States, British and Colombian governments.
JUDGEMENT PENDING
The men's relatives wept openly in court when Senior Resident Magistrate Martin Gayle gave the orders in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court. One of Nembhard's relatives held on to him and had to be pulled away by the police.
"Everything is going to be all right," Nembhard said as he consoled his relative.
Ramcharan and Williams have brought a motion in the Supreme Court seeking to have the extradition orders set aside. The judgement is pending.
Nembhard and Ramcharan are contending that their designation as as drug kingpins will prevent them from getting a fair trial if they are extradited.
U.S. prosecutors will be relying on the testimony of Delroy Williams, nephew of Robroy Williams, to prove the charges against the men. The nephew was held at sea by Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents while transporting a shipment of cocaine from Colombia, and taken to the U.S.
Nembhard is one of the two Jamaicans who President George Bush in June last year designated as 'Drug Kingpins'. The other Jamaican who has been designated a drug kingpin is Montego Bay businessman Leebert Ramcharan. He was ordered extradited along with Montego Bay businessman Donovan 'Plucky' Williams earlier this year to face drug charges in the U.S.
