February 3, 2021– Fifty-nine-year-old Hugh Frazer, businessman of Westgate Hill, Montego Bay, St. James is scheduled to appear in the St. James Parish Court on Wednesday, February 10 to answer to drug charges.

 On Friday, January 29, the Narcotics Police arrested Frazer about 7:15 p.m., during anti-narcotics operations along the Flanker main road in the parish. Reports are that he was driving a Hyundai motor car and was signalled to stop. He complied; the occupants along with the vehicle were searched and 11 packages of compressed cocaine, weighing about 11 kilograms, were found. The illicit drug has an estimated street value of over JMD 80 million.

Hugh was interviewed in the presence of his attorney and subsequently charged with Possession of Cocaine, Dealing in Cocaine and Trafficking Cocaine.