Jamaican found guilty in US of drug trafficking,fraud,money laundering

Jamaican man has been found guilty in Connecticut in the US of  narcotics trafficking, identity fraud and money laundering.

A federal jury yesterday delivered the verdicts in the case involving Oneil Wilks,42.

The trial began on December 13.
Oneil Wilks will be sentenced on March 16, 2022 and faces a mandatory minimum term of  12 years imprisonment.

Wilks will also forfeit three vehicles, diamonds originally valued at more than US$50,000 , a watch he purchased for more than $12,0000 and $180 thousand seized from a bank account.

The Jamaican has been detained since his arrest.

Wilks who was removed from the U.S. to Jamaica in February 2014 illegally re-entered the country, used stolen identifying information of  an individual to apply for and receive a Florida driver's license in 2015, and a U.S. passport in 2016. 

Investigators determined that Wilks used his fraudulent passport to travel overseas, including to Japan and Thailand.

In April 2019, Wilks was stopped by law enforcement officers in southern California with five kilograms of  suspected cocaine in the car he was driving.  

Three months later investigators seized a package containing six kilograms of  cocaine that was being mailed from California to Connecticut.  

The following month, the Jamaican was arrested and court-authorized searches of  two residences and a vehicle connected to him revealed four kilograms of fentanyl, items used to process and package narcotics, fake ID cards and more than $160,000 in cash.