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Gardiner hit with new drug charges

CONVICTED drug trafficker Jonathan Gardiner has been indicted in Georgia over an alleged conspiracy to move massive quantities of cocaine from The Bahamas into the United States, including shipments prosecutors say could exceed 2,000 kilograms at a time.

Gardiner indicted on new US cocaine charges

ACCUSED Bahamian drug trafficker Jonathan Eric Gardiner has now been indicted in Georgia on federal cocaine trafficking charges after US authorities arrested him following his rescue from the Election Day plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean.

Election day crash ‘breach’ assertions face challenges

Panamanian investigators have raised concerns over co-operation and access to critical documents related to the May 12 general election plane crash involving drug suspect, Jonathan Eric ‘Player’ Gardiner, while also exposing multiple regulatory breaches.

Drug accused’s ties to business Venice Bay holdings

A COMPANY with ties to an accused drug trafficker acquired substantial assets in New Providence’s Venice Bay subdivision after embarking on a real estate spending spree that saw it purchase 27 lots for a combined $1.155m in less than three months.

Drug accused admits PPP and Carmichael builder his ‘business’

An accused Bahamian drug trafficker has admitted in legal documents that the construction company which developed both the Government’s $34m Eight Mile Rock administrative complex and flagship Carmichael Village affordable housing project is his “business”.

‘Substantial danger to the community’

A US judge has denied convicted drug smuggler Jonathan Gardiner bail after branding him a “substantial danger to the community" and finding that the "weight of the evidence against the defendant is very strong."

US court delays hearing for Bahamian drug suspect

THE US judge overseeing the case of Bahamian drug trafficker Jonathan Eric Gardiner has granted prosecutor’s request for a one day delay for a pre-trial conference.

‘Player’ Gardiner pleads not guilty

CONVICTED Bahamian drug trafficker Jonathan Eric Gardiner denied US cocaine and firearms conspiracy charges yesterday after a New York judge rejected his latest bid to have the case thrown out.

Gardiner faces new charges: plane crash linked to ‘election-related’ activities for first time

THE US government has filed new and additional charges against convicted Bahamian drug trafficker Jonathan Eric Gardiner for his alleged involvement in a long running drug trafficking plot that has sent shockwaves through The Bahamas.

Police chief reveals special team is probing US drugs plot claim

POLICE Commissioner Shanta Knowles has revealed a special team has been investigating the United States criminal complaint involving Jonathan Eric Gardiner for weeks, even before Opposition Leader Michael Pintard and other FNM MPs formally asked police last week to investigate the matter.

Gardiner petitions New York judge to dismiss criminal complaint against him

JONATHAN Eric Gardiner, the convicted Bahamian drug trafficker whose rescue from an Election Day plane crash has ignited a political firestorm in The Bahamas, has asked a New York federal judge to throw out the criminal complaint against him, arguing US authorities detained him for two days before filing charges and failed to indict him within the required 30-day window.

Fight, negotiate or co-operate: What's next for 'Player' Gardiner?

As Jonathan Gardiner sits in his New York jail cell contemplating his future, there appear to be a limited number of options open for the already convicted cocaine trafficker widely known as ‘Player.’

Top Notch subcontracted to paint WSC tanks, jury told

Jurors in the Adrian Gibson corruption trial were told yesterday that the company owned by convicted drug smuggler Jonathan Gardiner was subcontracted to paint the Water and Sewerage Corporation's water tanks for $45,000 in 2020.

Vast scale of DEA drug trafficking probe revealed

THE arrest of Jonathan 'Player' Gardiner after the Election Day plane crash has revealed the vast scale of the US Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) ongoing investigations into US-bound narcotics trafficking through The Bahamas, The Tribune can reveal today.

The day Gardiner’s life - along with the plane on which he was a passenger - came crashing down

When Jonathan ‘Player’ Gardiner left Nassau on the now infamous election day charter flight early on the morning of May 12 – to do whatever it was he was tasked with doing that day - the last place on earth the big-time drug kingpin would have wanted to end up was in the United States of America.

INSIGHT: Rescued Bahamian turns out to be a Cocaine Cowboy

THE circumstances surrounding suspected drugs kingpin Jonathan Eric Gardiner’s arrest last Friday reads like something from the pages of a John Grisham thriller, with a bizarre stroke of luck for United States law enforcement authorities leading to his detention after a covert operation spanning at least three years.

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