Deedo pleads guilty

Alleged drug kingpin 53 year old Norris ‘Deedo’ Nembhard is among five Jamaicans who pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling drugs into the United States.



The others are Robroy Williams, 51, Glenford Williams, 55, Vivian Dalley, 49, and 46 year old Herbert Henry.



The five men were extradited to the US in July.



Information out of the US Attorney General’s Office said they pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to import more than five kilograms of cocaine and more than one thousand kilograms of ganja into the U.S.



US prosecutors say Williams also pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine while aboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S.



According to US court documents, Jamaica serves as a shipment point for cocaine from Colombia to the U.S.



Williams and Nembhard reportedly made deals to accept delivery in Jamaica of cocaine shipments between 600 and one thousand kilograms.



The cocaine was delivered by go-fast vessels, and small quantities from these shipments were sold in Jamaica with larger quantities going to the U.S. by air or sea, often through the Bahamas.



In Jamaica, the cocaine, along with large amounts of marijuana and hash oil, was stored in rural safe houses controlled by Williams and maintained by co-defendants Glenford Williams and Ivan Kenneth Huggins, who were sentenced in 2006.



According to the court documents, the go-fast boats landed at various Jamaican beaches, including Negril and Montego Bay.



Prosecutors say Robroy Williams and Nembhard paid members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, including co-defendant Herbert Henry, to provide security and transportation of the cocaine.



They further claimed that couriers and money changers, including Dalley, returned the money made from the sale of cocaine to Colombia.