The Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority Mrs. Oleanvine Maynard and her son Kadeem Maynard were also jointly charged with Premier Honourable Andrew Fahie following a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) operation in Miami earlier today.
This is according to an article published by the popular Miami Herald newspaper which revealed further details surrounding the arrests of the trio who are jointly charged with “conspiring to import more than five kilos of cocaine into the United States and conspiring to commit money laundering.”
The article alleges that both Premier Fahie and Mrs. Maynard met with undercover DEA agents who were under the disguise of being members of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel.
“The foreign officials were arrested after they met with undercover DEA agents posing as cocaine traffickers to check out an alleged shipment of $700,000 in cash on an airplane that they believed was destined for the British Virgin Islands,” the Miami Herald stated.
It added, “Both government officials, who were in Miami for a cruise convention, went to the airport Thursday morning to see the alleged load of cash after DEA agents told them that the money was a payoff for allowing the cartel’s future cocaine loads to be transported through the British territory to the United States.”
Mrs. Maynard’s son is said to have been charged in another state but in relation to the DEA operation in Miami.
“A third person, Kadeem Maynard, the son of BVI’s port director, was also arrested Thursday in connection with the undercover DEA case, but not in Miami,” the article added.
Premier Fahie and Mrs. Maynard are both being held at the Federal Detention Center in Miami and are scheduled to have their first appearances in Miami federal court on tomorrow Friday afternoon.