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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...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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An alleged gunman was remanded in custody yesterday after he was charged with attempting to kill two men.
Cervio Cox, 28, from Clarendon Road, Hamilton Parish, was charged with the attempted murder of Lavon Thomas and Darren Thomas in an incident on ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The jury hearing the murder trial of Kevin Warner should never have heard “extremely prejudicial” evidence about gangs, his defence lawyer alleged.
Elizabeth Christopher made the complaint as she launched an appeal yesterday against Warner’s convicti...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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The $48 million cocaine haul found in the Janis Zegelis case was the second largest in Bermuda’s history.
The trial heard the 166 kilograms of cocaine found on Zegelis’s yacht, the Arturs, was second only to the 586 kilograms discovered on the boat O...
DATE: Jun 08, 2012
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A murder investigation stemming more than two years resulted in formal charges being laid against two men in Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
David Jahwell Cox, 32, and Devon Hewey, 23 were not required to enter a plea to a four-count indictment led by ...
DATE: Jun 08, 2012
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Latvian sailor Janis Zegelis has been convicted of importing $48 million worth of cocaine and a gun into Bermuda on his yacht.
The 29-year-old was found guilty by the unanimous verdicts of a jury after four hours of deliberations yesterday, and reman...
DATE: Jun 08, 2012
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A doctor charged with using a cell phone while driving had charges against him dismissed after the court heard he was making to an emergency call.
Dr Eyitayo Fakunle, 38, pleaded guilty to the charge but as Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner began to...
DATE: Jun 07, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Alleged drug-smuggling sailor Janis Zegelis was “under threat from a Russian mobster” when he brought cocaine to Bermuda and should be acquitted, his lawyer argued.
However, the prosecutor said Mr Zegelis knew exactly what he was doing and “no doubt ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2012
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Bermudian construction boss Rudolph Travers Clarke has been jailed for more than seven years in the United States for his part in a $3.9 million heroin importation plot.
Prosecutors had suggested he should have been locked up for up to 15 years. They...
DATE: Jun 07, 2012
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A sailor at the centre of a $48 million cocaine importation trial spoke of the “shocking” moment he discovered the drugs on board partway through a voyage across the Atlantic.
Janis Zegelis said he was hired by a Russian man to sail the yacht Arturs ...
DATE: Jun 06, 2012
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