By Racquel Porter
An airline pilot who was held last year attempting to smuggle ganja out of the island pleaded guilty today before the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Court.
However, 37-year-old Kenado Thomas, a Turks and Caicos national, was spared jail time and was fined a total of $275,000.
Thomas, who was employed to a well-known airline, was arrested on April 23 after 18 pounds of ganja was found in his possession at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.
Several parcels with the ganja were found in his suitcase while he was attempting to board the airplane he was scheduled to fly.
He was was fined $15,000 for possession of ganja and $260,000 for attempting to export ganja after his attorneys-at-law, Peter Champagnie, KC, and Samoi Campbell, urged the judge not to send him to prison.
The charges of conspiracy to export ganja and dealing in ganja were dismissed against him.
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