Former Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard To Plead Guilty To Drug Trafficking

Co-Accused Former Premier Andrew Fahie Prepares For Trial

Former British Virgin Islands Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard who is charged with drug trafficking and money laundering in the United States has filed a motion to  plead guilty on June 12.

The change of plea document was filed on Tuesday, May 30 in a Miami Federal Court, just over a week after her son Kadeem Maynard, also known as “Blacka”, decided to plead guilty to the same charges.

His change of plea motion will also be heard on June 12 – prosecutors have until June 10 to submit their sentencing recommendations to the court for the male Maynard.

Both Maynards have been in federal custody since their arrest on April 28, which made global headlines.

The Maynards along with former British Virgin Islands Premier Andrew Fahie are charged with conspiring to import more than five kilos of cocaine into the United States and conspiring to launder $700,000.

The female Maynard and Fahie were arrested at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Florida on April 28, 2022.

While thirty-two-year-old Kadeem was detained in St Thomas, United States Virgin Islands and later deported to the United States mainland.

Fahie, the former First Electoral District Representative and chairman of the Virgin Islands Party, was granted one million dollars bail – $500,000 cash and $500,00 surety –  and lives in his daughters’ two-bedroom apartment in Florida with an ankle monitor.

He is currently preparing for his trial.

Residents in the British Virgin Islands are closely following the case in which federal prosecutors told the judge that the trio had planned to use the territory as a transit point for trafficking drugs and potentially guns to the United States mainland.