Drug kingpin Samuel ‘Ninety’ Knowles has lost his appeal and must serve out the 35-year jail sentence imposed on him by a judge in a Miami court in 2008.<\/p>\n
Three U.S. Appeal Court Judges ruled against Knowles who was appealing his his sentence and conviction for smuggling tons of cocaine and ganja into South Florida.<\/p>\n
Knowles, 51, will have to forfeit $14 mlllion worth of his properties, assets and money to the U.S. and Bahamas Governments. He will also have to undergo a five-year supervised release period in Florida once he is freed from jail in the U.S.<\/p>\n
If he lives long enough, fallen kingpin Knowles will be in his early eighties’ before he is completely released in Florida and allowed to return to Nassau.<\/p>\n
The ruling gives names and details of Knowles’ gang who made drug runs from Jamaica to The Bahamas and into Florlda.<\/p>\n
Among those named in the 48-page ruling as members of Knowles’ gang are: his nephew Nehru Newton; Frank Cartwright; Brian Bethel; Kyle and Marvin Weech; Biswick Musgrove; cop Herbert Beneby; Eric Gardner; Paul and Lester Beneby; Myron “Donkey” Mortimer; pilot Gary McDonald; Berkley Hepburn; Julian Russell; Derrick Blake; Herbert Hanna; and Glenroy Riley.<\/p>\n
The ruling said Riley’s job was to count the drug money and guard the gang’s cocaine stash at a safe-house in Miami. Cartwright and Hanna took the drug money by plane and boat to Knowles in Nassau. At one point, Knowles was receiving $750,000-a-month in cash from Cartwright.<\/p>\n
Newton was paid up to $70,000 for bringing cocaine and ganja by go-fast boat from Jamaica. McDonald was paid $500,000 for flying one ton of cocaine worth $33 mlllion into Miami for Knowles. On another flight, McDonald flew 2,500 kilos of cocaine valued at $75 milion into Florida.<\/p>\n
Newton and five others snitched on Knowles in return for shorter jail sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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