“Entertainer Dwidth” surrenders to Canadian Police

A senior official attached to Guyana's Customs Anti Narcotics Unit told News Source that Canadian Authorities on Wednesday night informed their Guyanese counterparts that Ferguson turned himself into to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Wednesday in the company of an Attorney.

“Entertainer Dwidth” surrenders to Canadian Police

Guyanese deejay, Dwidth Ferguson, who is also known as “Entertainer Dwidth”, has surrendered to Canadian Law Enforcement authorities who are conducting a probe into his possible involvement in a multi national drug trafficking and gun running ring.

A senior official attached to Guyana’s Customs Anti Narcotics Unit told News Source that Canadian Authorities on Wednesday night informed their Guyanese counterparts that Ferguson turned himself in to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Wednesday in the company of an Attorney. Ferguson worked in Guyana with the Hits and Jams Entertainment company and the Fusion Sound System which are both owned by a company managed by his brother Rawle Ferguson.

A wanted bulletin was issued for his arrest in October, when the RCMP arrested 12 persons from Canada, who were allegedly part of a drug trafficking and gun running enterprise that involved a number of countries including Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States and Canada.

Several of those persons have since been charged and released on bail.

A number of search warrants were conducted as part of an operation in Toronto back in October, leading to the seizure of 22 firearms, $146,000 in cash, four cars and when combined with the hauls from three other related investigations, a total of 123 kilograms of cocaine.

The Police Chief said that since 2014, drugs would arrive at Pearson International Airport in luggage and other containers aboard planes arriving from California, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia and Guyana. Most of the drugs were to be sold in the Greater Toronto area, but some were shipped onwards to Newfoundland and Labrador.

Over the same period of time, handguns traced back to Florida were brought into Canada, also via Pearson International Airport, Barnum said.

The twelve people who have been arrested across the Greater Toronto Area face a total of 46 charges in connection with a year-long investigation that saw cocaine, prescription pills and handguns smuggled into Ontario from the United States and the Caribbean.

There are reports that the Guyanese deejay left Guyana for a visit to Canada in September and it was around the same time that the Canadian authorities decided to move in and effect the arrests of the others.

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