BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A female Newtown resident and the brother of former Commissioner of Police Celvin ‘CG’ Walwyn, as well as a male from Trafalgar Village, were jointly charged for a recent drug bust in St. Kitts.
Charged with possession of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to supply and importation of cocaine are Elaine Hyacinth Cooper of Herbert Street, Newtown; Steadroy ‘Smash’ Walwyn of Walwyn Avenue, Buckley’s Site; and Levi “Marley’ Aliah Archibald of Trafalgar Village.
According to the police, Cooper and Walwyn were bailed to the tune of EC$30,000 each, but Archibald was not and remains on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison.
On Sunday night (Nov. 22), members of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force’s Special Services Unit and the Anti-Narcotics Unit, supported by members of sister law enforcement agencies, conducted a joint operation which began at the RLB International Airport and ended in Buckley’s site.
Information that reached this publication stated that the officers had Cooper under surveillance after she flew into St. Kitts on a LIAT flight from St. Lucia and was allegedly met at the airport by Archibald.
The duo then headed to the Buckley’s Site residence of Walwyn to whom they allegedly handed over the suitcase.
Armed with a warrant to execute a search of the premises on suspicion of controlled drugs, firearms and ammunition, the officers carried out their quest and found a quantity of whitish substance concealed in a false compartment of the suitcase that Cooper allegedly brought into the country.
The whitish substance was later tested and proved to be cocaine with a street value of over EC$103,000.
Over the past 10-plus months, the Special Services and the Anti-Narcotics Units (recently dubbed the ‘A’ Team) had seized some 830 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of EC$11.265M, and 10.522 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of EC$447,790.
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