Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer
TWO HAITIANS captured by a joint police/military team in Clarendon on December 30, will be deported this week, according to a police spokesperson.
Constable Odale Mulgrave, the Constabulary Communication Network's liaison officer for the parish, told The Gleaner on Saturday that the Haitians, Pierrot Archer and Wueeklun Cherry, are currently in lock-ups in Four Paths and May Pen.
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He said they were found guilty of illegal entry into the country when they appeared in the May Pen Resident Magistrate's court on January 5.
They were both sentenced to 10 days in jail and ordered deported by immigration officials once they had served their term.
Constable Mulgrave says Archer and Cherry are suspected of being involved in a drugs-for-guns ring operating out of Haiti. They were detained by a squad from the Jamaica Coast Guard, the Narcotics Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and police units from Clarendon and Manchester.
Cherry was held along with 41-year-old Nigel Cole from Runaway Bay, St. Ann, in the district of Gut's River while Archer was picked up with another Jamaican in Alligator Hole, also in Clarendon.
Both Jamaicans remain in custody. Cole has been charged with aiding and abetting illegal entry of the Haitians, while the other man's identity was not disclosed because he has not been charged.
The police say they have been investigating a Haiti-run network where persons in that country exchange guns for drugs with their Jamaican counterparts.
In November, Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas said the murder of Roy Thompson, his son Randy and an unidentified nephew, were linked to that operation.
No arrests have been made in that case.
