JO - EXTRADITED. 'Deedo' Nembhard, four other J'cans handed over to US to face drug trafficking charges.

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Jamaica Observer

EXTRADITED

'Deedo' Nembhard, four other J'cans handed over to US to face drug trafficking charges

BY KARYL WALKER Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com

Saturday, July 12, 2008

NORRIS 'Deedo' Nembhard, the alleged Jamaican drug kingpin, and four other Jamaicans were yesterday handed over to the United States authorities to stand trial on drug trafficking charges, despite last-minute attempts by their lawyers to prevent their extradition. On Thursday, Nembhard's attorney, Jacqueline Samuels-Brown, applied for special leave in the Court of Appeal to allow for an application to the United Kingdom-based Privy Council, as she continued her bid to prevent her client from being extradited.

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"(T)he attorney was livid after learning that her client, along with Robroy 'Spy' Williams, his bother Glenford Williams, Vivian Dalley and former police corporal Herbert 'Scarry' Henry were airlifted by helicopter from the Horizon Remand Centre in Kingston and handed over to the Americans at the Norman Manley International Airport at about 9:00 am."

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"Nembhard, a St Ann businessman, was held by the police during a sting operation in that parish in 2004, after US drug enforcement authorities requested that he be extradited to face drug-running and conspiracy charges in Florida.

The other men were held by local narcotics agents during similar operations in western Jamaica. United States President George W Bush, shortly after the arrest of Nembhard, declared him and another Jamaican businessman, Lebert Ramcharan, drug kingpins."