Luis Sprauve trial still up in the air
He appeared in the Magistrate’s Court last week, however, the Crown asked for an adjournment until June 29, 2012. Initially, his trial was set for January 20, 2012.
Mr. Sprauve is charged with assisting another with retaining the benefits of criminal conduct, and has pleaded not guilty.
According to court records, the 38 year-old is part of a drug trafficking ring that came to light in 2011. It is alleged that he transported the undisclosed amount of money which was then flown out by a private aircraft YV436T bound for Venezuela.
On Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 6:55 a.m. a small white vehicle pulled up at the Terrance B Lettsome International airport and the accused in the driver’s seat was seen reversing from the departure to the arrival area where he allegedly met Linda Todman-Huggins, a Customs Officer who has since been sentenced to two years for bribery and assisting another with retaining the benefits of criminal conduct.
CCT footage shows him removing a suitcase from the passenger’s side and giving it to Mrs. Todman-Huggins, and from the back of the vehicle, another suitcase was taken and the defendant carried it to the arrival area where Customs is located.
While in the Customs area, it is alleged that the two suitcases were handed over to a male person identified as a ground staff who took the suitcases to the privately owned aircraft at 7:23 a.m. which left the Territory.
The Crown contends that possibly $2M were in the suitcases.
Sprauve is on $70,000 bail.
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