US AIRPORT WORKER SMUGGLED DRUGS TO BERMUDA FOR 12 YEARS, COURT TOLD
Accused: Craig Hatherley
((Photo by Mark Tatem))
An undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent told Supreme Court how a Bermudian allegedly handed him almost $1 million worth of heroin on the streets of Manhattan.
Gordon Patten said of defendant Craig Hatherley’s demeanour during the 1.11pm meeting in a car on 33rd Street: "He was calm and didn't speak much."
According to prosecutors, Mr Hatherley was part of a plot to import the heroin into Bermuda, and arranged to hand it over to a man who he believed to be a co-conspirator in New York.
Unbeknown to him, US law enforcement officers had busted the plot, and sent in undercover agent Gordon Patten to pose as the accomplice instead [see main story].
Mr Patten drove a black Lexus car kitted out with surveillance equipment to the meeting point near the Pennsylvania Hotel on Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street.
18/09/2012 : Elizabeth Roberts / The Royal Gazette Online.
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