An attorney for Banton, whose real name is Mark Anthony Myrie, said he plans to argue that the singer was entrapped by the informant, who pestered him for months to join him in a cocaine deal. Myrie is being held without bail on charges of conspiring to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting his co-defendants in possessing a firearm during the course of cocaine distribution. The Drug Enforcement Administration has said in court filings that Myrie contacted a confidential informant about a possible cocaine purchase.
The next day, Myrie and other men met with the informant at Sarasota's La Tropicana de Havana restaurant, where the DEA and local police had set up video and audio surveillance. Defense attorney David Oscar Markus told U. Magistrata Thomas Wilson this morning that prosecutors have not provided enough information about the informant for him to be prepared to cross-examine him at Myrie's trial, scheduled for April In a video to 1.
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Hot Current Affairs. View this post on Instagram. In February the star was convicted of conspiracy to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute it, along with a further drug trafficking offence and a gun charge. He was acquitted of a fourth charge for attempted cocaine possession. It was Banton's second trial - his first ended in September when the jury was unable to reach a verdict.
Much of the case hinged on video and audio recordings taken by an informant and by Drug Enforcement Administration personnel. One video shown to the jury showed Banton apparently tasting cocaine in a Florida warehouse.
He and another man pleaded guilty to drug charges in the case. Banton convicted in cocaine case.
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