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And now we get to the sticky question of who imported the gummies. As we told you last night - a large percentage of them were found in a barrel addressed to a police officer who is under interdiction. Well, we should say, he used to be a police officer, because Akeem Gamboa was dismissed today.
The Commissioner confirmed what we first reported lats night - and put the picture together for us:
Chester Williams, Commissioner Of Police
"I know the question would be then, who imported it and then we were told by customs that the barrel in which the gummies were imported was imported in the name of one Akeem Gamboa, Akeem Gamboa was a police officer on interdiction, and he has been on interdiction for over two years now, following a fight that he had at the Dangriga town police station, um, about two years ago. When we checked with customs today because normally what would happen when barrels come in, customs would receive the barrels and then the owners or the person in whose name the barrel would have been shipped, um, would go to customs and claim the barrel or whatever goods may have come in and we checked with customs today and up to today the barrel and the other content of the barrel is still at customs and was not claimed. So, while yes the barrel was imported in the name of that individual,um, no one had gone to claim the barrel at customs. Now, due to the newscast yesterday, there are certain things that we intended to have carried through but we will no longer be able to do that because of what was said on the news yesterday and that basically blew what the police had intended to do in terms of a sting operation, that has now gone through the window. Nonetheless I can say to you that Akeem Gamboa was tried in a tribunal and was convicted of that fight in the police station in Dangriga. He was also tried in the Magistrate's court and was also convicted for that fight and so today he was dismissed from the police department so he is no longer a police officer as of today."
