| As the fallout in the Guyana-Barbados human trafficking bust continues, a Guyanese female relative of an Immigration Officer charged in relation to the smuggling ring, is now on her way back to home, after pleading guilty to illegal entry.Fifty-year-old Tessa Lovell of Essequibo Coast, the mother-in-law of Barbados Immigration Officer Ryan Rudolph Jordan, who faces the court on a human smuggling-related charge, was arrested Tuesday on charges of entering the island on April 19 without the permission of the Minister of Immigration.She was on Wednesday fined Bds$1,Cheap Jerseys Online,000 (Bds$1 = 50 cents US) or three months in prison after pleading guilty. The fine was paid and she was handed over to immigration authorities for deportation.According to local Barbados media reports,Nike Air Max Saldi Online, Lovell was found residing in the house in which Immigration Officer Jordan was living when police executed an arrest warrant on that residence in Bagatelle Park, in the parish of St Thomas, Tuesday.Subsequent checks revealed that Lovell had been deported from Barbados in January 2008 under the name of Tessa King, and was never granted permission to re-enter the country.Her son-in-law, Ryan Rudolph Jordan, on Tuesday appeared in court charged with being a public officer and on February 20, providing information to a Guyanese woman which he knew to be false and which he knew would be used to obtain an extension to her stay. He was not required to plead to the charge and was granted $5,000 bail and ordered to re-appear in court on September 5.The allegation against 38-year-old Jordan is in relation to the Barbados police April 18 raid on a bar in downtown Nelson Street, Barbados, where they found five Guyanese girls clad only in bathing suits, purportedly working as prostitutes.These girls are being kept by the Barbados authority in protective custody,Discount Nike Shoes Online, and may be used as witnesses in the cases.Lovell’s arrest and deportation takes the count up to five for the number of persons held for prosecution since the raid.The Nelson Street barman and proprietrix were arrested and slapped with 30 charges relating to human trafficking and false imprisonment. At the time, police seized a quantity of passports, some said to be forged.Following the arrest of the barman and business proprietrix, information has been flowing, and that has led to the arrest of a 76-year-old woman, who sources say posed as a grandmother of young prostitution recruits from Guyana. She faces some six charges, including that of human trafficking.The pregnant proprietrix, initially bailed at $30,Cheap Wholesale Air Jordan Shoes,000,Scarpe Nike 2019 Donne, is now behind bars with the barman who was never offered bail.Guyanese sources resident in Barbados and Barbadians, all of whom do not want to be named, indicated that the woman was taken in by police last week after she allegedly began tampering with witnesses and uttering threats.She in turn has reportedly leveled allegations to police about a Guyanese-Barbadian counterpart who functions as a recruiter of girls for prostitution, and is now in Guyana. That information led to the Guyanese-Barbadian woman being arrested by Guyana police,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, but subsequently released.Reports are that the Guyana police are collaborating with its Barbadian counterparts in this case, but while inroads are being made in Barbados, there have been no arrests in Guyana,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, though some of the human smugglers have been identified here. |
