By Gordon French
Caribbean Net News Guyana Correspondent
Email: gordon@caribbeannetnews.com
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: A Guyanese man who is wanted in the US on drug related charges has been nabbed in Guyana and President Bharrat Jagdeo is prepared to cooperate fully with the US during the extradition hearing which begins next week.
Terrence Sugrim, 42, was nabbed on Thursday by local police at a house in Middle Dam, La Grange, West Coast Demerara. Sugrim, a deportee for whom an indictment was unsealed three years ago, was found with two firearms and a quantity of ammunition. A woman, who was in the house, was also arrested.
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| Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo. AFP PHOTO |
“We have to get support from the US to pursue this extradition through our courts because there is an established process for extradition and we intend to follow that process I have always made it clear to the US,” Jagdeo told reporters on Friday.
Guyana has received flak for failing to capture citizens accused by the US. Jagdeo said he was pleased that Sugrim was captured since he was among five persons from a group of 14 that the US publicly indicated it was seeking to have extradited.
The men were being sought for trafficking in narcotics between Guyana, Barbados, St Lucia and the United States. It is alleged that they committed the crimes between January 1999 and March 27, 2004. They were indicted in absentia on two counts in the US District Court (District of Columbia) on March 3, 2003.
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