Drug smuggling figures, investigators take stand - News - Virgin Islands Daily News: "Craig Claxton, Walter Ells, Vernon Fagan, Kelvin Moses, Dorian Swan and Kerry Woods are charged with conspiring to distribute cocaine. Prosecutors allege that the men are members of a multinational drug organization that moved tons of cocaine from South America to Tortola to St. Thomas then to the mainland United States.
The six men were arrested in October 2005 during a roundup of suspected drug dealers in Savan near the former Red Ball grocery store.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Delia Smith, the lead prosecutor, and her colleague Nolan Paige are relying on the testimony of several convicted felons who have signed cooperation agreements with prosecutors to testify “whenever called upon to do so.”
Christopher Swaney, 32, of Greensboro, N.C., is serving a 145-month jail term for trafficking cocaine. He was indicted in mid-2007 after being found with 300 kilograms of cocaine. He pleaded guilty to that charge and was sentenced in 2008. As part of his plea deal, Swaney entered into a cooperation agreement in February 2007 “to debrief agents of my role in the conspiracy, and I would not be held accountable for the things I said personally to the agents,” Swaney said.
Swaney said he became involved in drug distribution in 1996 when he was just 17 or 18 years old."
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