August 21 For Sentencing – Oleanvine Maynard And Son Kadeem Guilty Of Conspiring To Import Cocaine Into The US

Ex-British Virgin Islands Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard and her son Kadeem Maynard will be sentenced on August 21 for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States

The Maynards struck a deal after spending more than a year in federal custody, agreeing to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their case against co-defendant former BVI Premier Andrew Fahie.

They face a mandatory minimum term of ten years by accepting a plea agreement. They avoided a possible life sentence for drug and money laundering charges which prosecutors declined to pursue as part of the confession deal.

Their change-of-plea hearings were held on Monday, June 12 in a Miami federal court.

The Maynards, along with the ex-BVI Finance Minister Fahie, were arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration Agents (DEA) on April 28, 2022 during a sting operation.

They were 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 detained at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Florida on April 28, 2022.

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

The Maynards have been on remand since their detention, while ex-First Electoral District Representative and Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party Fahie is currently on one million dollars bail – $500,000 cash and $500,000 surety –  lives in his daughters’ two-bedroom apartment in Florida and wears an ankle monitor.

Fahie, who pleaded not guilty to all charges, is scheduled for trial on July 17.

Federal prosecutors said the trio had planned to import thousands of pounds of cocaine from Central American drug cartels into the United States using the territory’s ports.