Kadeem Maynard set to plead guilty
Drug and money laundering accused, Kadeem ‘Blacka’ Maynard, has reportedly filed a motion to change his plea to ‘guilty’.
Kadeem was charged alongside his 61-year-old mother, Oleanvine Maynard — a former BVI Ports Authority Managing Director — and former premier Andrew Fahie, 52. Kadeem has been in custody ever since his arrest in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, on April 28, 2022.
Reports reaching BVI News indicate that, after being incarcerated for a little more than one year, the 32-year-old Maynard filed a motion in a Miami federal court on Monday, May 22 to change his previous ‘not guilty’ plea.
The hearing for him to make that change is set for June 12, just one month before the scheduled mid-July trial for Fahie and the elder Maynard.
It remains unclear whether Kadeem now intends to plead guilty on all counts. Kadeem and his co-accused each face one count of conspiracy to import a controlled substance, conspiracy to engage in money laundering, and attempted money laundering. This is in addition to a subsequent charge of Interstate and Foreign Travel in Aid of Racketeering that was slapped on the trio in early November last year.
Kadeem’s mother remains incarcerated more than one year after her April 28, 2022 arrest, even as Fahie remains on home confinement with his two daughters on a $1 million bond ahead of his mid-July trial.
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He’s made a deal. Not good for the co-accused.
In this country, it is the older generation who are good for nothings and causing the younger ones to go astray. He is still young and has a life to live. Plead guilty and let the older ones who knew better, pay.
Atleast he not wasting the U.S courts time,dont know if he co-operated with The DEA or what, the next accused better change their plea’s also. Unfortunate situations they got themselves in but hey good move by the fellow
somebody get quack Quack real fast lol something for something big plea
The man decided to take the fall and let the others go free
Thank goodness for the US Government only the UK police can’t get anybody arrested and properly charged. Persons are here boldly running drugs and laundering monies and all the law doing is pussy footing with them.
Filing these Misdemeanor charges for serious offenses against these politicians and others. What would the BVI have been if the feds didn’t deal with Fahie. I don’t know what the authorities here are doing with the info that they have plus what the same feds give them just turning a blind eye.
THIS MAKES THINGS MORE COMPLICATED FOR THE ENTIRE CREW
Same thing I saying ah sorry for the other one.
Son makes a plea deal now so mom and coach have less chance of escaping the guilty verdict at trial.
Thank goodness you say. How to thank a country that starts fires professionally and rushes in when its convenient for them & their friends public relations to put them out?
Remember, the last governor only started talking publicly about having knowledge of high level corruption when Fahie started fighting with him and acting up from the UK perspective by talking about preparing for VI independence and further winding down of colonialism.
In my opinion all three parties are wrong and morally corrupt and by parties I mean Fahie the UK & the US.
They literally used the last slavery whip in their possession “the war on drugs” to do what seems to be a racially motivated political lynching,
Evil people arrested whats the problem?
The glaring problem is that their set up happened not when its good for the people, but when it was beneficial for the shared UK & USA COI agenda.
Which is pure racism at work… call it what it is.
it looks like he took a deal, can’t blame him it’s either that or rot in prison
@Good Move:
Nah. It don’t work so!!
I’ll agree it’s racism but try refreshing your memory with a copy of those transcripts and charges. These three had a plan to sell out the territory to drug runners and gun runners. Kadeem Maynard had arranged to flood OUR STREETS and POLLUTE OUR CHILDRENS LIVES with SIXTY KILOS OF COCAINE A WEEK!!!!! Mrs Maynard and Mr Fahie supported this deal that would make the VI the final destination for over 8400 ounces of cocaine a month.
And yes, this is a symptom of global institutionalized racism; how much do you have to despise your own people to be willing to conspire to commit such heinous crimes against your own community?
Yo know he telling
Thank you Feds for taking such an important step.
Meanwhile what has the Governor and Police done to identify GO1 who was also included in the transcript as being vital to mass drug trafficking?
Is racism the only excuse you could use. Shame on you
No one plead guilty without cooperating deal…
Sink Fahie..Then Fahie fires bank..Then the BVI get sinks..
They shouldn’t make no deal with any of them if they have all this mountain of evidence that they claiming they have on them then lock up all ah dem end of story!
I thought it was good move when the first of the John brothers pleaded guilty so the other brother could be freed but later the second pleaded guilty too. So now both brothers in jail.
When any BVIslander get caught up in scandal they either blame orhers for their misdeeds
2. Sweep it underneath the rug and dont sayb anything about it
3. Vex with others when they talk about it .
For right or wrong the hustling make the place operate..without this place suffer bad bad.Economy run by it..the average man dont got to suffer and run away to other places.Bills paid money get spend….so London..they love it canT WAIT TO
get ofF their nut on a Friday night…tHEY canT get enough of it..literally.UK CONSUMPTION IS OFF THE SCALE..ITS AS COMMON AS HAVING A PINT.
He was smart he’d tell before mr.gotta go to the dentist. He knows fahie is a toss up. Sadly the realest one in the scenario is the mama she plead the 5th from day one haven’t heard a peep since. Premier movin to scary.
I like how you come back to refresh ‘my’ memory with a lie. Colonial modus operandi
All you are doing is fooling off the readers with your mischievous misinformation.
We remember the paid UK positive bloggers during the premier and governors squabble.
We remember how they allegedly almost came to fist fighting. We remember how shabby Fahie dressed in disrespect of seeing that governor off.
We remember the new governor releasing the COI report early & suddenly in concert with Fahie’s arrest.
We remember The UK choose not to host a COI during their pandemic but found it suitable to host a Virgin Islands COI while we experience the same PANDEMIC!
Stop coming with your lies.
The people of the BVI have read the affidavit and while I said Fahie was morally wrong to be so tempted… hes the one who kept warning the VI about foreign entities out to get us like a hungry fox and policing ourselves, yet the same racist foreign entities set him up. Pretty weak.
Either way it is clear as day from the transcript that he did not plan to flood our streets because the mexican informant made it out to be a very sweat deal where he’d make his money and the VI is left untouched. The US would not be involved if the set up was only to flood our streets.
“You really thought of everything” as Fahie said to the informant in their affidavit. We also remember the part in the affidavit where he said he never made money off deals like that before. His 20 years experience was probably politics.
Im not saying defending his decision, even if he is guilty it doesnt change the falsehood of your & any UK narrative.
Its pure racism what happened. Its personal because they tried to take the whole VI down with them. And by them I mean the UK, the USA and Fahie. Each in their own way worked against the people.
If the old governor can publicly make veiled threats years ago to Fahie, out of the blue when they start bickering, then they should have had everything they needed already to arrest him locally years ago. DUH!!!! Talk about UK corruption.
They waited till its convenient for their white supremacist racist imperialist colonial politics to set him up, to make the globally scrutinized commission of inquiry seem less racist and achieve its overreaching goal.
The goal is killing VI independence and integrating us with the struggling UK.
They did not choose to do it when it was good for the BVI people which would have been at the soonest not when its a publicity stunt.
Cherp, cherp, cherp.
I see Andrew Fahie in Sea Cows bay this week, he dun got out. He by the chicken stand!
S.O.S. CAPTAIN THE SHIP IS SINKING, CAPTAIN THE SEAS
ARE ROUGH . SHALL WE ABANDON SHIP OR SHOULD WE STAY ON IT AND PERISH SLOW…..