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Married Bahamian Couple Accused Of Drug Smuggling Extradited To The United States
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Dwight and Keva Major extradited:
By ARTESIA DAVIS, Guardian Senior Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:



A married couple accused of drug smuggling in the United States was extradited yesterday, following a five-year legal battle.

The government handed Dwight and Keva Major over to US authorities, a day after the Supreme Court dismissed an application challenging the lawfulness of a warrant of surrender that was signed in 2006. That warrant was executed yesterday morning.

The Majors will appear before a Florida judge on Monday morning, according to Daniel O'Connor, the political, economic and public affairs chief at the United State Embassy in Nassau.

Former Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell signed the warrant when the couple had no pending appeal against the Appeal Court's decision that they be extradited. At that stage, their lawyer had only filed a notice of intention to appeal the decision. The Majors lost their battle against extradition at the Privy Council last November.

The Majors, both 38, are the parents of four young children, aged seven through 18, are accused of conspiracy to import cocaine and marijuana and attempting to import marijuana. Florida prosecutors requested the couple's extradition in 2003 based on evidence gathered through wiretaps of their phone conversations.

Mr. Major, who is known by the street names "Sider Brown" and "Papa", was already in prison in connection with an alleged conspiracy to smuggle 1,200 kilos of cocaine from Colombia into The Bahamas when the request was made.

Police recorded the calls Major made to his wife and other persons on a mobile phone from his prison cell.

Becket Turnquest and Jonathan Cartwright, two coconspirators named in the Grand Jury indictment, waived their right to extradition and went voluntarily to Florida. They pleaded guilty and received shortened prison sentences in exchange for becoming cooperating witnesses. Turnquest and Cartwright were released in 2005.

Reverend Donald Dorsett, Mrs. Major's father, told The Guardian yesterday that he believed his daughter would get justice in the United States. He believed that she had been treated unfairly as her repeated requests for bail had been denied, although about 20 other men who are also fighting extradition were released. Mrs. Major's youngest child and only daughter was two years old when she was detained on the extradition warrant. The children are being cared for by their grandparents.

Dorsett, who runs a convenience shop in the Englerston area, said, "All things work together for those that love the Lord."

April 19, 2008 | 6:05 PM Comments  0 comments

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