Dutchman fined $45,000 for drug trafficking

A NETHERLANDS national was yesterday fined $45,000 “payable forthwith” or serve a sentence of five years in prison when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Lianne Lee Kim at the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Fourth Court on a drug trafficking charge.

Glen Calor, 38, who now resides in Suriname, was charged with possession of 340 grammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking on August 2 by an officer attached to the OCNU. Calor, the father of an eight-month-old daughter, was apprehended for questioning by the officer as he was boarding a BWIA flight bound for London on August 1. While he was being questioned, Carlor complained of not feeling well and was taken to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where he was examined and warded. The next day 29 pellets of the illegal narcotic, which he had ingested, were found in his stool. He was arrested and taken to the Belmont police station, where he was subsequently charged. Calor’s attorney, Carol Duffy Dowlat, told Lee Kim that there was “no plausible explanation” for what her client had done and asked the magistrate to be lenient with him. She said the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was willing to assist and relieve the state of the burden. Lee Kim then handed down her sentence and said she hoped the embassy could help him with the fine.