Last Updated on June 25, 2020, 8:11 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Three western Jamaica police personnel have been charged on Tuesday in a sweeping narcotics operation which involved high-profile United States law-enforcement agents in two cities of the USA.
All of the cops who have been charged operate within the St James Police Division.
Agents reportedly intercepted the arrested cops from the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Atlanta and Charlotte.
These police personnel have been identified as Constable Dremar Graham, Woman Constable Shermain Latoya Gooden and Constable Trevonne Davidson.
The fourth cop, who is a woman constable, was flown back home and is now in the custody of the St James police.
However, she has not been identified as yet.
A communication specialist with the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Dennis Brooks, has confirmed that the four police personnel had interactions with the security agents in the United States.
In a press statement which was issued late on Wednesday evening, the JCF credited the ongoing investigations as well as the intelligence sharing between the Jamaica Constabulary Force and United States counterparts for the arrest of these three Jamaican constables.
Sources have also revealed that three of the implicated constables have been assigned to the Granville Police Station while the fourth constable works out of the Freeport Police Station.
Two of the four cops were supposed to be on duty and had left Jamaica without the knowledge or consent of their superiors at the time they were held in the US.
The woman constable, who was taken back to Jamaica on Tuesday, underwent intensive interrogation on Wednesday night.
Police sources said that they know that she is being questioned, but they are not able to say she is cooperating or not.
The sources added that this is the most embarrassing situation for the organisation, but the organisation intended to get to the bottom of the matter.
Two of these cops were held in operation in Charlotte city in Georgia while the other two were nabbed in Atlanta.
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