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Cocaine Smuggler Gets 14 Years In Tampa Trial

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Published: August 26, 2008

TAMPA - A Bahamian national convicted of drug smuggling was sentenced today in a Tampa federal courtroom to 14 years in prison, according to the U.S. attorney's office said.

Jeremy Major, 38, was found guilty June 11 by a federal jury of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. A co-defendant in the case, Brendon Glinton, was sentenced Aug. 14 to 169 months in prison.

Glinton, formerly with the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, had been found guilty after two jury trials on separate cocaine trafficking charges.

The trial established that Major and Glinton smuggled 2.2 pounds of cocaine into the United States during a commercial flight into Miami, prosecutors said. The cocaine was being delivered to a buyer in Tarpon Springs, investigators said.

Major, Glinton and other Bahamian nationals were involved in smuggling more than 220 pounds of cocaine into the United States since 2000, prosecutors said.

The Drug Enforcement Administration, the Tarpon Spring Police Department and the Pasco County Sheriff's Office were involved in the investigation.

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