Airport worker in major cocaine bust gets $1 million bail
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2020 | 5:21 PM
Airport employee 38-year-old Kymali Hoyles who was arrested and charged earlier this month in connection with the seizure of cocaine valued at $2 billion at the Norman Manley International Airport has been granted bail.
Hoyles was offered bail in the sum of $1 million with three sureties when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court today.
In applying for bail, attorneys-at-law Hugh Wildman and Ernest Davis argued that Hoyles was not a flight risk and will turn up for his trial.
He’s to return to court on February 9, 2021.
The police had reported that narcotics cops were conducting operations at the airport on the morning of December 11, 2020, when a vehicle was searched.
According to the police, 239 packages of cocaine were found.
It was reported that the cocaine weighed 611 pounds or 278 kilogrammes.
Hoyles was held and later charged with possession of cocaine and taking steps preparatory to export cocaine.
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