Andrew A. Fahie plans to appeal conviction
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![Kadeem S. Maynard, the son of former BVI Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard, was sentenced in a Miami court to 57 months in jail on Monday, November 20, 2023, for his role in a scheme to traffic cocaine from Colombia through the [British] Virgin Islands to the US mainland. Photo: Team of Reporters](https://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/cache/images/800x_8_800x_8_800x_8_800x_8_800x_k_Kadeem_01_01.jpg)
Mr Fahie was convicted on February 8, 2024, and is scheduled to be sentenced on August 5, 2024.
According to St Thomas Source in a publication on July 20, 2024, court records filed on Wednesday, February 17, 2024, Mr Fahie plans to appeal his conviction and said the United States government played a much more active role than he did.
Fahie had a ‘lesser part’ in plot- Attorneys
Mr Fahie, according to St Thomas Source, argued that he had a lesser part in the plot to turn Tortola into a major cocaine through point for South American narcotics bound for Puerto Rico, Miami, and New York than his co-conspirators. US government agents who set up the sting operation were the real instigators and planners, Fahie’s attorneys said.
It was the undercover agents that hatched the bogus smuggling plan and brought it to then-BVI Ports Authority Executive Director Oleanvine Pickering Maynard and her son Kadeem S. Maynard. It was the federal agents and the Maynards who concocted an alleged bribery scheme and worked out logistics to park cocaine-laden ships in Tortola for a few days to gain legitimacy. And it was the federal agents — known as confidential sources or CS in court records — and the Maynards who arranged a side deal to move more cocaine directly into Tortola for sale in their personal drug-dealing network, Fahie’s attorney argued.
Mr Fahie had told the court he went along with the plot only as a way to gather information that he could give to authorities.
In their sentencing recommendations, prosecutors were also overstating Fahie’s involvement in recruiting and directing other people associated with the plot but not charged in Miami, Fahie’s attorneys argued. The Maynards controlled people at the ports, not Fahie, his attorneys said. And although Fahie called VI Customs Commissioner Wade N. Smith directly after discussing the smuggling plot, there was no solid evidence presented at trial that Smith was agreeable to bribes, the attorneys said. Fahie may have asked then-Deputy Ports Authority Chairperson Roxane Sylvester to come to Miami, they said, but she was unaware of the providence of the money she was allegedly asked to ferry back to Tortola — some $500,000.
Prosecutors had successfully argued that Fahie could not claim he’d been entrapped by the undercover agents because, they said, he’d been given several opportunities to decline the offer to arrange drug smuggling but went along with the plot instead.
Maynards already sentenced
Meanwhile, former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard, who was arrested with Mr Fahie in Miami, was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment on June 20, 2024. She will serve an additional five years of supervised release.
Pickering-Maynard had pleaded guilty to cocaine conspiracy charges as part of a plea deal with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to testify against Mr Fahie.
Her son, Kadeem S. Maynard, also pleaded guilty to cocaine conspiracy charges as part of a similar plea deal and was sentenced on November 20, 2023, to 57 months in prison for conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States.
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31 Responses to “Andrew A. Fahie plans to appeal conviction”
Either way jail time is inevitable. You're like a turkey slowly roasting before you get fed to big Bruce in prison
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WANT MY MOMMIE , FREE ME
SINCE HE’S ADMITTING THAT HE WAS INVOLVED, WHY DIDN’T HE PLEAD GUILTY AND BEG FOR MERCY INSTEAD OF WASTING THE COURT’S TIME.
THERE WERE AND STILL IS A LOT OF EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM SO AN APPEAL IS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY UNLESS HE’S DOING IT FOR A LESSER SENTENCE BECUZ HE WILL BE FOUND GUILTY AGAIN.
HE MADE HIS TWIN SIZE BED SO HE HAVE TO LIE IN IT.