Illegal drug trade in the Turks and Caicos Islands

Illegal drug trade in the Turks and Caicos Islands involves trans-shipment of cocaine and marijuana through The Turks and Caicos Islands to the United States.

Developments

Then Chief Minister Norman Saunders was arrested in March 1985 together with Commerce and Development Minister Stanford Missick.^[1] Saunders was alleged by the US Drug Enforcement Administration to have accepted $30,000 from undercover agents to ensure safe passage of drugs by permitting safe stopover refuelling of drug flights from Colombia to the United States.^[1] Video evidence showed Saunders accepting $20,000 from an agent.^[1]

Saunders was convicted in July 1985 of conspiracy, though he was acquitted of the charge of conspiring to import drugs into the United States (which Missick was also convicted of).^[1] He was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $50,000.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 Griffith, Ivelaw L. (1996-7), "Illicit Arms Trafficking, Corruption, and Governance in the Caribbean", Dickinson Journal of International Law, pp495-6.

Illegal drug trade in the Caribbean

Greater Antilles	Cayman Islands Cuba Dominican Republic Haiti Jamaica Puerto Rico

Leeward Antilles	Aruba Bonaire Curaçao Federal Dependencies of Venezuela

Leeward Islands	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda British Virgin Islands Guadeloupe Montserrat Saba Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin U.S. Virgin Islands Saint Kitts and Nevis Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten

Windward Islands	Dominica Grenada Martinique Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Other islands	Barbados Bahamas Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands

Continental coasts	Belize Bermuda Colombia Costa Rica French Guiana Guatemala Guyana Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Suriname Venezuela

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