drug dealer faces up to 23 years in prison after admitting to the U.S. court for trafficking and violence
a Jamaican drug dealer sparked a small war in Kingston last year in an attempt to avoid extradition to the United States faces 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in a court in New York with trafficking and violence.
Christopher "Dudus" Coke, 42, was once considered by many Jamaicans as the most powerful man in the country, admitted trafficking more than three tons of marijuana and 30 pounds (14 kg) of cocaine to the United States, and ordering the stabbing of a marijuana dealer in New York.
"I plead guilty because I am," said Coca-Cola, who faces 23 years in prison when sentenced in December.
why Coca-Cola has saved a possible life sentence, was welcomed by the political leadership in Jamaica. Some will be relieved that does not force you to reveal the powerful political connections that allowed him to run his drug empire unhindered by the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood of the capital, Kingston, until the government finally yielded to the pressure from the United States. UU. last year and sent the police and army to stop it.
More than 70 people died in the battle, some in the summary execution-style killings of the soldiers.
Coca-Cola has signed an agreement a week after a judge ruled that the tapes to listen to telephone conversations in which he analyzes traffic in marijuana, cocaine and weapons could be played in the yard.
also faced several witnesses who prosecutors said they would testify that Coca-Cola released a small army and violent, known as the Shower Posse, because of their tactics shower with balls their enemies, to control the smuggling of drugs through Jamaica. Prosecutors said evidence that Coca-Cola has personally killed several people, including cutting of a man with a chainsaw.
prosecutors said he was also personally responsible for other murders, shootings and beatings. "Because of heavily armed soldiers patrolling in Coca-Cola Community Tivoli Gardens, which was largely closed to the police in Jamaica," said prosecutors in court documents.
"The influence of Coca-Cola headquarters in New York on drug trafficking co-conspirators, from its base in Kingston, was primarily a function of the participation of their soldiers and the reputation of violence and the fact that many of these dealers based on the family was in Jamaica and therefore more vulnerable to threats and intimidation. "
Peter Bunting, the security minister for the opposition People's National Party, the Jamaica Gleaner said he was not surprised by the declaration of Coca-Cola.
"Once the request of Mr. Coke to reject the evidence of wiretaps as evidence was rejected by the court, there would be little chance that the remoteness of the evidence with the cooperation of witnesses, was so strong. "
Before his conviction in the month of speculation in Jamaica suggested that Coca-Cola will try to avoid a conviction more important to do a deal with prosecutors to be very embarrassing for the Government of Jamaica and some prominent politicians.
Tivoli Gardens is a neighborhood known as "barracks," as they were built by one of Jamaica's two political parties during their rotations of power and can be used to deliver the vote accordingly.
However, the drug lord commanded considerable support in the Tivoli Gardens, helping the poor send their children to school and buy food and clothing to the difficulty of families, and was seen as a political force in the delivery of votes for his party Golding.
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