Andrew Morgan gets 4-year jail sentence for cocaine trafficking
Drug dealer Michael Andrew Morgan has been jailed for four years for trafficking seven pounds of cocaine at his Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home in June 2022.
Following a trial earlier this month, Andrew Morgan, 53, was found guilty of trafficking the illicit substance by Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrates’ Courts.
The drug trafficker was also fined $4,917,000—three times the street value of cocaine found at his residence. He was also credited for time spent on remand awaiting trial.
In passing sentence on Friday, Magistrate Scarce, inter alia, considered the serious nature and prevalence of drug trafficking and the quantity of cocaine found at Andrew Morgan’s home.
At the time he was arrested for this offence, Andrew Morgan told a probation officer that he was working as an auto dealer with his brother.
Andrew Morgan was represented by Attorney-at-Law Glen Hanoman while the matter was prosecuted by Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) prosecutor, Attorney-at-Law Thalia Thompson.
Andrew Morgan had made his initial court appearance on June 28, 2022.
He was never granted bail pending the hearing and determination of his trial. Bail applications made on his behalf were refused by Magistrate Scarce and High Court Judge, Gino Persaud.
According to reports, on June 27, 2022, CANU officers acting on intelligence conducted a narcotics operation at Andrew Morgan’s Eccles, EBD residence.
A subsequent search of the said property was conducted in his presence which resulted in the discovery of a quantity of cocaine, 27 9mm rounds, a .32 Taurus firearm, along with one magazine, and 25 matching .32 rounds.
Andrew Morgan was then arrested and escorted to CANU headquarters along with the firearm, ammunition, and the large quantity of cocaine.
Andrew Morgan is the brother of convicted drug trafficker Peter Morgan, who was deported from the United States of America (USA) in 2015.
Peter was imprisoned in the USA for conspiring to import, possess and distribute five kilogrammes of cocaine between December 2001 and August 2003 into the USA.
