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So, Gamboa is no longer a police officer - but the commissioner says that he wanted to catch the constable in a sting operation - and that was the plan all along - or so he claims:
Chester Williams, Commissioner Of Police
"As I said to you just a while ago that the barrel came in and what we would normally do is that due to the fact that the content of the barrel, we believed it was laced with something but we were not sure. So, what was being done was that the content or certain contents would have been removed, certain content those things that we were relieved were laced and sent to the lab. We would have gotten the results and then would have been placed back in the barrel and they would have done a sting operation, call whoever to pick up the barrel and see if they would have come but because of the newscast yesterday we can no longer do that. Secondly, no one had gone to claim the barrel and you would know and I would know that to import something from the states in a barrel in a person's name it would require more than just that your name on the item for you to be prosecuted. It would need to have gone further. So, we were hoping that perhaps someone, maybe Akeem or someone on his behalf would have gone to customs and claimed the barrel and the other content because they had not known that customs had received it and once that would have been done then we would have created the nexus between the person who comes and claims and the barrel because that nexus is very important. That will no longer be able to be done."
7News did speak to Gamboa lats night and he told us he didn't order any edibles and didn't know that any were sent for him. We tried to reach hm again today, but we instead spoke with his attorney who will speak to the media tomorrow.
