| Military Officials
from the Bahamas Detained in
SDNY for Drug Trafficking and
Weapons
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 8 – Two former officials
of the Bahamas were arraigned
on drug charges on January 8.
Inner City Press was the only
media in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrates courtroom when it
happened.
Both men were
detained, and will be seen by
the District Judge on January
10.
Back
in November DOJ announced the
unsealing of an Indictment
charging 13 defendants with
cocaine importation and
related weapons offenses in
connection with their
participation in a massive
cocaine importation conspiracy
enabled by corrupt Bahamian
government officials,
including high-ranking members
of the Royal Bahamas Police
Force (“RBPF”). ELVIS
NATHANIEL CURTIS, an RBPF
Chief Superintendent, and
DARRIN ALEXANDER ROKER, a
Chief Petty Officer in the
Royal Bahamas Defence Force
(“RBDF”), were arrested on
Monday in Florida and had
their initial appearances
yesterday afternoon in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of
Florida.
LORIELMO
STEELE-POMARE, a/k/a “Steele”
and WILLIAM SIMEON, a/k/a
“Harvey Smith,” a/k/a “William
Jacques,” a/k/a “Romeo
Russell,” a/k/a “Dario Rolle,”
were arrested overseas on
Monday. LUIS FERNANDO
OROZCO-TORO was arrested
overseas yesterday. The case
has been assigned to U.S.
District Judge Gregory H.
Woods.
It was Curtis and Roker who
were arraigned on January 8,
both with retained (paid)
counsel.
The case
is USA v. Curtis, et al.,
24-cr-655 (Woods)
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