By Kimone Witter
An airport employee who was convicted on several cocaine charges was on Monday sentenced to two years imprisonment and fined when he appeared in the St. James Parish Court.
Kimauly Hoyles, 38, was convicted in the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish on May 31, in connection with a massive cocaine seizure at Norman Manley International Airport on December 10, 2020 and was awaiting sentencing.
But on September 12, Hoyles was arrested at Sangster International Airport by detectives from the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division, while trying to flee the island with a fake American passport.
He was sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard labour for possession of cocaine or a fine of $1.5 million and a mandatory two years at hard labour and a $3 million fine or three years at hard labour.
For trafficking in cocaine, Hoyles was sentenced to one year imprisonment for attempting to export cocaine or $30,000 and six months hard labour for possession of criminal property or a fine of $500,000.
He was admonished and discharged on the charge of dealing in cocaine.
The sentences will run consecutively if the fines are not paid.
Hoyles now awaits trial for the charge of uttering forged documents.
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