Jamaica drug kingpin 'Dudus' Coke sentenced to 23 years

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8 June 2012 Last updated at 13:08 ET
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Jamaica drug kingpin 'Dudus' Coke sentenced to 23 years
Alleged drug gang leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke is shown in this undated photo. In a plea for leniency, Coke told the judge he was a "good person"

Notorious Jamaican drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke has been sentenced to 23 years in a US prison, the maximum sentenced he faced.

Coke pleaded guilty to drug and gun-trafficking charges in August 2011.

A five-week operation to capture him in 2010 saw clashes in Jamaica's capital, Kingston, in which scores died.

His Kingston-based criminal organisation trafficked marijuana, cocaine and firearms and enjoyed protection from Jamaica's ruling party.

When Coke was first indicted in the US in 2009, Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding initially fought his extradition, arguing that it was based on flawed evidence.

Mr Golding's parliamentary constituency is in West Kingston's Tivoli Gardens, the district Coke's Shower Posse and the Presidential Click had controlled.

But after months of delays and amid growing local and international criticism, Mr Golding agreed to extradite Coke and signed an arrest warrant.

Coke had written a letter to the judge ask for leniency, describing good deeds he said he did for slum-dwellers in Tivoli Gardens.

Prosecutors argued Coke terrorised and destroyed anyone who interfered with his drug operation, and several women abused by his gang in Jamaica begged the judge for a harsh punishment.

BBC News - Jamaica drug kingpin 'Dudus' Coke sentenced to 23 years

 

[humble Hermit]

A wah di bumboclooooot

I'm still amazed at his last name though. Not Jamaican but my best friend is but I'm still Do the crime pay the fine I guess

 

[Hannibal Fox]

 

[Serious]

When Coke was first indicted in the US in 2009, Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding initially fought his extradition, arguing that it was based on flawed evidence.

The drug game is big business...

 

[MikelArteta]

Don dada

 

[DaRealness]

I still lol when remembering what some people out there was saying: "Jesus died for us, we'll die for dudus". Poor folk wasn't about to just let their meal tiket get taken away without a fight.

 

[Food Mane]

Buju, Vybz, Dudus are all locked up. Damn.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Should be a good movie

 

[88m3]

 

[radio rahiem]

f-ck dudus..I hope he rots in jail and Interpol arrests all of the shower posse. drug trafficking is unacceptable to me..

 

[aRoMaN21]

20 years?? thats it? not saying he needed more time, but wow...where im from you get a year for each .3 grams u sell of cocaine. .9 grms get you 3 years and if youre lukky they drop it down to 1 charge.
he only needed to sell 6grms to get 20 years where im at.
duke got 20years??????
he has some gooooooood lawyers cuz no way he was going state to state with only 6 grms.

 

[Food Mane]

20 years?? thats it? not saying he needed more time, but wow...where im from you get a year for each .3 grams u sell of cocaine. .9 grms get you 3 years and if youre lukky they drop it down to 1 charge.
he only needed to sell 6grms to get 20 years where im at.
duke got 20years??????
he has some gooooooood lawyers cuz no way he was going state to state with only 6 grms.

So say you get caught with a ball, you are doing 12 years?

 

[cleanface coney]

20 years?? thats it? not saying he needed more time, but wow...where im from you get a year for each .3 grams u sell of cocaine. .9 grms get you 3 years and if youre lukky they drop it down to 1 charge.
he only needed to sell 6grms to get 20 years where im at.
duke got 20years??????
he has some gooooooood lawyers cuz no way he was going state to state with only 6 grms.

yea 23 thats straight since he was a boss
lawyers can take u a long way

 

[aRoMaN21]

So say you get caught with a ball, you are doing 12 years?

im saying that if you sell .9 grams you can get 3 years where im at.
true story. it scares the shyt out of a person who sells 3 $20 bags.
thats the point of the sentence.

duke is very fortunate he only got 20 for all the shyt he pushed.

 

[cheek100]

Buju, Vybz, Dudus are all locked up. Damn.

busy from the same hood too