TAMPA: A man who was part of a group of cruise ship employees who smuggled cocaine into Tampa from Honduras faces 10 years to life in prison after being found guilty.
Desrick Gordon, 23, of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and five other crewmen on the Norwegian Cruise Line received packages filled with between 750 grams and a kilogram of cocaine from a source when their ship was docked in Toatan, Honduras, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
When the ship docked in Tampa, the smugglers gathered at a restaurant near the port to remove their packages and then handed them off to local drug traffickers with ties to the Honduran source.
Agents stopped the local traffickers when they left the Channelside District and found 7.5 kilograms of cocaine, the release said. The agents seized more than $50,000 from the crewmen.
The other cruise ship employees, Jason Carmichael, Teffan Delice, Johnson Cherubin, Alfred Ince, and Arkine John, previously pleaded guilty for their roles in the case. They will be sentenced in January.
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