Georgetown: The Guyana Police Force has decided to keep convicted drug lord Shaheed Roger Khan in custody as they investigate him into pertaining to the Murders of popular boxing coach, Donald Allison in September 2005 and political activist Ronald Waddell in January 2006.
His lawyer Glen Hanoman said Khan was rushed to the CID Headquarters after arriving in Guyana and his photographs and fingerprints were taken after arriving at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on an American Airlines flight.
Hanoman said that Khan will be kept in police custody pending the outcome of the investigation but noted that there is no decision to charge his client.
On 15 June, 2006, Khan was arrested in Paramaribo with three of his bodyguards in a sting operation that Suriname police said netted more than 200 kilograms of cocaine – the biggest cocaine haul in Suriname of that year.
Instead of being deported to Guyana, then Minister of Justice of Suriname, Chan Santokhi, ordered that Khan be flown to Trinidad. Upon arrival at the airport of Trinidad, Khan was handed over to immigration authorities who then handed him over to US officials.
Less than 24 hours after being expelled from Suriname, Khan was arraigned at the Brooklyn Federal Court in New York City on June 30 2006 on a charge of “conspiring to import cocaine” and was ordered to be detained at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn.
Khan, who was jailed in October 2009 for up to 15 years, asked the US court earlier this year to release him early, based on new regulations.
Khan was sentenced to a total of 40 years’ imprisonment on three separate charges by US Judge, Dora Irizarry, in 2009, after she accepted the plea bargain agreement he had reached with prosecutors.
However, two of the sentences, 10 years for an illegal firearm possession, and 15 years for witness tampering, ran concurrently with the other 15-year jail term.
In addition to the jail time, Roger Khan had to undergo supervised release for five years although according to the judge, he is to be deported. Khan was also accused of executing competitors in the drug trade.
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