BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – STEADROY ‘SMASH’ WALWYN, the brother of former Commissioner Celvin ‘CG’ Walwyn, and Elaine Hyacinth Cooper of Herbert Street, Newtown were fined a combined total of EC$500,000 following a drug bust in November last year.
Walwyn, Cooper and Levi ‘Marley’ Aliah Archibald of Trafalgar Village were jointly charged with possession of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to supply and importation of cocaine. A police communiqué however stated that all charges against Archibald were dismissed.
The communiqué also stated that between Tuesday and Wednesday (Feb. 23-24) Walwyn and Cooper had appeared in court to answer to the charges.
Walwyn was fined EC$400,000 on charges of possession of cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to supply, which he was ordered to pay forthwith or serve four years at Her Majesty’s Prison with hard labour. No penalty was awarded for the importation charge.
Cooper was fined EC$100,000 with similar conditions on the importation charge but no penalty was awarded on the two other charges.
On the night of Sunday, November 22, 2015, 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 an operation which began at the RLB International Airport and ended in Buckley’s site.
Information that reached this publication had stated that the officers had Cooper under surveillance after she flew into St. Kitts aboard a LIAT flight from St. Lucia and was allegedly met at the airport by Archibald.
The duo then headed to the Walwyn Avenue, Buckley’s Site residence of Walwyn to whom they allegedly handed over a 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.
At that time of the bust, the Special Services and the Anti-Narcotics Units 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.
