Fourth person charged in huge drug importation case

A fourth person has been charged in court over an alleged multi-million-dollar drug importation scheme involving foreign nationals.



According to a report on www.cananews.net Peter Sagos, 35, of Ottawa, Canada, is charged with conspiring with Andrew Blatchley, Jeannie Harden, Edide Plourde and persons unknown to import marijuana into the island.



Court sources have said the drugs were worth more than US$30 million.



Sagos was not required to enter a plea as his case is indictable and will be heard in Supreme Court.



Sagos\' co-defendants Blatchley and Harden, both 58, of Great Oak Drive, Charleston, South Carolina, and Plourde, 68, of Boule de Maison Neuve, Quebec, Canada, faced the same charge when they appeared in Magistrates\' Court last week.



Blatchley and Harden are also facing a charge of money laundering proceeds from drug trafficking.



All four foreign nationals have been remanded in police custody and will appear in court again on October 20.