RIDE OR DIE—FLICKS
Met i need u to make a topic about woman who get all up in the hype life of drug dealers being the ride n die chick and after all the smoke clear y not go back to school y move to a next drug dealer the girls who moving the money through the airport and driving drugs when the get caught what they thing niggaz gonna have there back? They just gonna move to the next chick that’s willing to do the same shit y sell our life short as black woman fir some nigga it’s time Jamaica woman wise up even these young man that’s living the famous n hype life and when the get lock up and the time is up they have nothing in Jamaica they cry and become informa thinking it’s going allow them to stay in the US Jamaican needs to wise up
FAWDA A DI YEAR
Hi Met,
Pls big up pretty boy Konshens fi mi deh. Mi si him wid him dawta yestideh afternoon uppa Devon House sans har madda. Mi naw lie mi feel good fi si a man from di dancehall a act like a fadda an a stan by him child in all ways possible, cuz some a dem not even talk to dem pickney much less carry dem out. An is not a case weh di madda was dere an a she really a deal wid di child. Him really deserve a big up.
BUJU
Reggae star Buju Banton begins drug trial
(AP) – 1 hour ago
TAMPA, Fla. — Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton was an established drug trafficker before the singer allegedly tried to buy cocaine from an undercover officer in Florida last year, attorneys for the U.S. government said Monday at the beginning of Banton’s drug trial.
“Do you have any contacts where I can get cocaine?” Banton asked a government informant named Alexander Johnson in a recorded conversation, Assistant U.S. Attorney James Preston told a jury in Tampa federal court.
The singer was looking for “more, new and different money through a new conspiracy he was shopping for” in addition to drug deals he already had funded, Preston said.
Banton, 37, whose real name is Mark Myrie, has been held without bail since his arrest in December on charges of conspiring to distribute cocaine and carrying a firearm during the course of a drug trafficking crime.
The four-time Grammy nominee faces a possible life sentence if convicted.
Banton’s attorney, David Markus, insisted his client did not participate in any conspiracy to sell cocaine, even if he did talk with the informant about drug deals.
“Yes, Buju talked a lot,” Markus said in opening statements. “Yes, he tasted that cocaine. No, he wasn’t a drug dealer. He wasn’t part of the deal.”
Markus said Banton will testify in his trial.
“He’s got nothing to hide,” Markus said. “The truth is on his side in this case because he didn’t do anything.”
Banton and an associate allegedly negotiated with an informant to buy the cocaine. Along with a third man, they allegedly met with an undercover officer in Sarasota in early December to buy the drugs. The informant told Drug Enforcement Administration agents that he also saw the singer inspecting the cocaine, tasting the drugs with his finger.
The Dec. 8 meeting was captured on video.
The two co-defendants have pleaded guilty and have agreed to testify against Banton.
Banton’s using his finger to taste the cocaine in the Sarasota warehouse in December was “the worst mistake of his life,” Markus told the jury.
He will try to prove that Banton was a victim of entrapment.
Markus told the jury that Johnson had imported cocaine to the U.S. from Colombia until he was caught in 1994.
Johnson cooperated with authorities, served three years in prison and has earned $3.3 million by working for several U.S. law enforcement agencies, including more than $50,000 for the Banton case.
“Alexander Johnson has never had a job,” Markus said. “Instead, he’s been setting people up.”
Preston said Banton was eager to work with Johnson, whom he met on a flight from Spain to Miami at the end of his European tour last summer.
“I give you money,” Banton said, according to Preston. “You buy, you sell, give me money.”
YES BUJU SOME PRAYERZ A COME CHOO
TAMPA, Florida — Drug Enforcement Agent Daniel McCeaffrey, today testified that he had no evidence that Reggae singer Buju Banton, was involved in illicit drug dealing.
McCeaffrey, who gave evidence on the first day of the trial at the Gibbons US Federal Court in downtown Tampa, said there was no evidence that Buju Banton — whose real name is Mark Myrie — received any money from any drug deal.
Banton…Appeared confident in court. (Observer file photo)
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He also said even though he was investigating Banton for a year, he could find no evidence that the artiste had collected any money from drug dealing.
He made the revelation during cross-examination from Banton’s attorney David Markus.
Markus, in his opening salvo, told the 14-member panel of jurors that he would prove that Myrie was not a drug trafficker and had never invested in illicit drug dealing. He said that artiste would waive his right not to testify.
“He’s got nothing to hide because the truth is on his side in this case,” Markus said.
He said his client’s big mistake was that he loved to talk. Markus said Myrie met DEA informant Alexander Johnson, a Colombian national, on a flight from Madrid Spain to Florida last year and during conversation Johnson introduced the subject of drug dealing to him.
He said Myrie had in fact tasted cocaine but that did not qualify him as a drug dealer.
Markus also argued that Myrie did not know about the US$130,000 that his co-defendant James Mack had been held with. The money he said was given to Mack by two men identified as ‘Ike’ and ‘Tike’ from Atlanta, Georgia.
The attorney said Mack and Ian Thomas were the ones who were dealing drugs and said his client made a decision not to partake in any deal and went to his Tamarac home in Florida, where he was arrested in December last year.
Mack and Thomas have taken plea deals and have agreed to testify against the artiste. All three are charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilogrammes of cocaine. The charge carries a sentence of 20 years to life and a fine of up to US$4 million.
Prosecutor Jim Preston argued that he would prove that Myrie is a known drug dealer who invested in multi-million dollar drug enterprises and he was arrested because he was starting a new venture.
Forensic chemist Alexandra Gongra also gave evidence that the substance that Thomas and Mack were arrested with was cocaine.
Telephone records analyst Donnie Godshoal also gave evidence today.
Dozens of Banton’s supporters turned up outside the court to show their solidarity with the four time Grammy nominee.
His former manager Donovan Germaine, VP Records President Chris Chin and Deejay Delly Ranks were also present for the trial.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/DEA-agent-testifies-in-Buju-s-favour
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