Canadian sex offender to be deported to JA

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A Canadian ex-convict described as extremely violent is soon to be deported to Jamaica <span style="font-weight: bold">despite migrating when he was 4-years old and having no existing ties here</span>.

The Calgary Herald reports that Leaford Lewin, 25, has been ordered deported after serving jail time for sexual assault with a gun.

Canadian Immigration officials say Lewin will stay behind bars for the next 6 to 8 weeks, until his deportation date, as he is a flight risk with &quot;nothing to lose.&quot;

Lewin, who just completed his four year sentence for sexually assaulting a sex trade worker in 2005, <span style="font-weight: bold">has lived in Canada with his family since he was a toddler, but does not have Canadian citizenship. </span>

During his hearing on Wednesday, Lewin claimed he struggled with cocaine and bad company the year he was incarcerated and called his sex crime &quot;disgusting, shameful and repulsive.&quot;

<span style="font-weight: bold">He told the court he had matured in jail, upgraded his education </span>and worked as a carpentry apprentice.

<span style="font-weight: bold">But</span> Canadian adjudicator Leane King said Lewin's violence had escalated behind bars and he showed no sign of wanting to be rehabilitated.( <span style="font-weight: bold">so sen him bak to Ja whe no need fi him kine a specialised learning , right yah now)..yeah rite </span>

At the hearing, <span style="font-weight: bold">Lewin's mother and three other relatives who were in attendance wept when they heard he was to be deported as he has no close relatives in Jamaica.</span>

Besides the sex assault conviction, Lewin had an earlier assault charge stemming from an incident against his girlfriend in March 2005.

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J’can among 3 held in Miami for ganja


A Jamaican man, said to be an illegal immigrant, is one of three men being held in Florida's Jackson County maximum-security jail, after he was caught driving a trailer filled with ganja along a highway.

Kevin Ray Bremmer, 33, a Jamaican said to be in the United States illegally, was the driver of the tractor trailer in which Miami State Department of Transportation (MDOT) enforcement officers seized more than 400 pounds of marijuana at a truck-inspection station on Wednesday.

A 2007 Peterbilt tractor-trailer eastbound on Interstate 10 bypassed MDOT's inspection station in the Orange Grove area, so officers gave chase.

After they stopped the truck and had it return to the inspection facility, authorities found boxes filled with 17 individual bundles of marijuana valued on the street at US$406,000.

Mr. Bremmer was driving without a commercial license, while Robin Johnson, 40, of West Palm Beach in Florida, a co-driver, had false and incomplete logbook entries.

The truck's owner, Andrew Dillion, 36, of Royal Palm Beach also in Florida, was found in the truck's sleeper area, where US$115,000 was also found and seized.

Documents indicated the truck was loaded in Houston with raw materials, though none of the alleged &quot;raw materials&quot; was found.

The three were arrested, each charged with several misdemeanor violations and one count each of possession with the intent to deliver marijuana and are being held pending a hearing.

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Bjan tief $26 M a yaad


<span style="font-weight: bold">A Barbadian accused of stealing $26 million from his employers </span>was denied bail when he appeared before the Corporate Area Criminal Court on Friday.

Jerry Small, an accountant, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Fraud Squad detectives who took him off a plane at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Wednesday opposed bail.

Investigators reported that in September, 2008, Mr. Small who was employed to Huawie Technology Jamaica Limited based on Trafalgar Road in Kingston, conspired with Mervin Morant, another employee, to fleece the company of $25.9 million.

Huawie which specialises in building cell sites for local telecommunications companies called in the police in March, 2009 after it uncovered the fraud.

Mr. Morant who now owns his company, was arrested and charged in April.

He was later released on $5 million bond.

Mr. Small is to return to court on June 26.