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Jurors start deliberating verdict in South American drug ring trial
Two South American men who stand charged with conspiracy and importation of 1.5 kilos of cocaine in 2006, await their fate as jurors have started to deliberate on their charges.
Jose Pena, of Columbia, and Domingo Navas, 33, of Panama are pleading not guilty to the charges in a longer-than-normal drug trial, which was characterised by bickering lawyers.
The men were arrested after Enrique Martinez Burgoa, a 43-year-old Mexican drug mule, was first caught with the drugs at the airport.
Burgoa was made to phone his contacts, asking them simply to “pick up the drugs”.
Pena and Navas were immediately arrested when they went to Burgoa’s hotel room in Sliema even if he had not given them any directions or told them where he was staying.
