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...Coke pleaded guilty today to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering....Christopher Dudus Coke Pleads Guilty
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...Coke pleaded guilty today to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering....Christopher Dudus Coke Pleads Guilty -
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Jamaican Coke admits to drug, racketeering crimes
31 Aug 2011 21:52
Source: reuters // Reuters http://www.tJamaican-Coke-admits-to-drug-racketeering-crimes
NEW YORK, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Accused Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke pleaded guilty in a New York court on Wednesday to racketeering charges more than a year after a manhunt to capture the fugitive sparked deadly gun battles.
Coke, 42, was arrested in Jamaica in June last year after a five-week manhunt that began when police and soldiers stormed slums in the country's capital Kingston in an attempt to take him into custody.
Seventy-six people were killed in four days of gun battles sparked by the raids.
Coke was a strong supporter of the ruling Jamaica Labor Party and wielded powerful influence in the west Kingston slums. Jamaica initially refused to extradite him and the case had strained relations between the United States and Jamaica.
He was extradited to New York on marijuana, cocaine and firearms trafficking charges in June last year and pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Manhattan federal court to one racketeering conspiracy count and count of conspiracy to commit assault in aid of racketeering.
Coke, in a blue prison uniform, admitted to running the Presidential Click, a Kingston, Jamaica-based crime group that trafficked guns, cocaine and marijuana between Jamaica and the United States.
"I also ordered the purchase of firearms and the importation of those firearms into Jamaica in furtherance of this conspiracy," Coke told U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson.
Coke faces a term of up to 23 years in prison at his Dec. 8 sentencing. -
Dudus Plea Deal
Jamaican Drug Lord Enters Plea Deal In Racketeering, Assault Case
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Jamaican Drug Lord Enters Plea Deal In Racketeering, Assault Case
The Jamaican drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke has entered a plea deal in Manhattan for his charges of racketeering conspiracy and conspiring to assault with a weapon to aid racketeering.
He faces up to 23 years in prison.
The U.S. Department of Justice says that Coke led a criminal drug-trafficking and weapons-trafficking ring called the "Presidential Click" or the "Shower Posse" from 1994 until 2010.
The latter nickname comes from the group's reputation for showering bullets during Jamaica's drug wars in the 1980s.
Coke is also charged with arranging the 2007 stabbing of a Bronx marijuana dealer.
There was a weeks-long manhunt in Kingston, Jamaica for the confessed drug ringleader last year, during which 76 people were killed. Coke was later caught and extradited to New York in June 2010.
He originally pleaded not guilty to his charges and would have faced life in prison.
Many supporters came to Coke's first court appearances and said he was viewed by some Jamaicans as a modern-day Robin Hood.
Coke will be sentenced on December 8.Comment
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Graphic, graphic details here. Not sure the Jamaican media will print this but I hear the prosecutor's report is damning. Also the rumor is that the "slaughter house" they found in West Kingston was used to kill people including one posse member who stole money from Dudus and not animals as some residents claimed (story below):
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Coke murdered at least two individuals in Tivoli Gardens (in Kingston) who failed to repay narcotics-related debts," prosecutors wrote last week.
"Coke directed his "soldiers" to locate (one) and bring him to the jail in Tivoli Gardens. While the victim was tied down, <span style="font-weight: bold">Coke killed him with a chainsaw</span>."
The 37-page motion contained what Coke's lawyers called "massive additional instances of criminality sprung at the last minute" and came a day before a judge ruled that prosecutors could also let jurors hear their wiretaps.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime...eal.html?r=newsComment
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who can i ask...
who killed more innocent people in the last 10 years?
christopher coke or united states presidents?Comment
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Perhaps, but as relates to Jamaica it is becoming clearer by the day that certain communities operated as states within a state where law enforcement could not operate freely and certain individuals untouchable and they had to have a whole lot of help from people in political office to operate the way they do. It was Jamaicans with the implicit or explicit help of the state killing other Jamaicans. It is obvious that Dudus is singing like a canary though the report is at pains to suggest otherwise. Others will likely fall, a brighter day for Jamaica may be.Comment
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it's a smokescreen...
other dons are willing & soon able to take his place,,,
and whoever the american don (president) is, he will have to weigh his options in terms of extradition requests...
i suppose bringin 'dudus' to justice was worth 100 j'can lives as killing saddam hussein may have been worth 100,000 iraqi lives...
i already start out with the premise that gov'ts are corrupt...
it's a sad spectacle really...and shows jamaica's impotence in the face of superpowerComment
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if he gets deported to jamaica - will he serve jail time - or be a dead man walking?Comment
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seems a deal been brokered... will be interesting to see which high ranking official, prominent businessman or known community leader will be in News for some reason (maybe being sought by US) soon ..
We sure have come a far way was a soverign nation..Comment
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but dudus was not found guilty of anything in jamaica
and how come deportation wasn't offered to buju?Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SmoothOperator</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Graphic, graphic details here. Not sure the Jamaican media will print this but I hear the prosecutor's report is damning. Also the rumor is that the "slaughter house" they found in West Kingston was used to kill people including one posse member who stole money from Dudus and not animals as some residents claimed (story below):
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Coke murdered at least two individuals in Tivoli Gardens (in Kingston) who failed to repay narcotics-related debts," prosecutors wrote last week.
"Coke directed his "soldiers" to locate (one) and bring him to the jail in Tivoli Gardens. While the victim was tied down, <span style="font-weight: bold">Coke killed him with a chainsaw</span>."
The 37-page motion contained what Coke's lawyers called "massive additional instances of criminality sprung at the last minute" and came a day before a judge ruled that prosecutors could also let jurors hear their wiretaps.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime...eal.html?r=news </div></div>
and u tell me, TG ppl dem a stick up fe a man like dat
dem madd as ish,
NY times a run it too,
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It's not required that he be offered it.
He'll be deported after he's done the time - then with the deportation, they'll have barred him for life ...
Which, sadly for me, now means we'll NEVER be getting married!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seveen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">but dudus was not found guilty of anything in jamaica
and how come deportation wasn't offered to buju?
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So, his mother passed without ever knowing what happened to him. That's sad.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tulip</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So, his mother passed without ever knowing what happened to him. That's sad. </div></div>
no man, his mom knows what happened to him, and from the article, him did a get long distance call, or maybe dem come a usa and go visit him in jail...
now he couldnt get to go to his moms funeral, and thats a beachComment
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Oh ok, Sista. I kind of jumped to conclusions based on the timing of the thread titles.Comment
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