Two Virgin Islands police officers and four other men are accused of trafficking cocaine in Miami after being detained at Opa Locka airport with 300 pounds of the drug, the South Florida prosecutor reported Friday.
Police officers Teshawn Adams, 26, and Shakim Mike, 29, arrived on a private flight at Opa Locka Airport, where customs and border guards discovered the drug hidden in their suitcases through X-rays.
The other defendants are Anthon Berkeley, 26; Roystin David, 28; Maleek Leonard, 27, and Tevon Adams, 26.
The complaint states that Teshawn Adams accepted an offer from someone in the Virgin Islands to ship cocaine to South Florida in exchange for money.
Together with Mike, they organized a private flight from the Virgin Islands to South Florida for January 12, the date 294 packets of cocaine wrapped in plastic attempted to enter the United States.
The officers worked for the US Virgin Islands Police Department and lived in St. Thomas, as did David and Leonard.
Meanwhile, Tevon Adams and David lived in St. Petersburg, on the west coast of Florida, and in Orlando, in the center of the state.
Tevon Adams, Teshawn’s twin brother, and Berkeley were ready to ship the cocaine and travelers on the private jet from Opa Locka airport to other parts of Florida, the complaint said.
Agents from the CBP and the Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have investigated the case, with the help of the Miami-Dade Police Department.