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Local boat captain nabbed in $3M Florida drug bust

A local boat captain has been arrested in a multi-million dollar drug bust in the United States.

Police said the accused drug smuggler, Wayne Stout Jr, was also a target in an ongoing money-laundering investigation.

According to court filings seen by BVI News, Stout was arrested following a surveillance operation executed by the Department of Homeland Security, which involved another man — Avery Lans.

Reports show that Lans previously served 25 years of a 40-year sentence for second-degree murder in the neighbouring US Virgin Islands (USVI) before receiving a pardon from former USVI Governor John de Jongh after his release.

Investigators said they trailed Stout as he rented a car and took officers to a storage unit in Orlando, Florida before handing over a duffel bag to Lans in the parking lot of a restaurant.

When they followed Lans, he reportedly began driving erratically, which investigators believe was a tactic used to evade pursuit. During this pursuit, Lans reportedly tossed the bag he was given by Stout and it was later discovered to have nearly 12 pounds of cocaine inside.

Officers then obtained a search warrant for the storage facility that was earlier accessed by Stout. There, agents discovered three large coolers containing 109 bricks of suspected cocaine.

Officers said each brick was estimated to weigh at least 1 kilogram and explained that a kilogram of cocaine is worth approximately $30,000.

Both men were later arrested and brought before the court on charges of conspiracy to possess 5 kilos or more of cocaine.

Stout was set to appear before Judge Melissa Damian on June 8 where prosecutors requested that bail be denied.

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  1. The net says:

    Is closing in. Dem DEA boys aint fooling. Time for some to get worried. Knock. Knock.

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    • Canary says:

      Singing?

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    • Yup says:

      The US and the UK are on the move to clean up the narco state that the BVI has become. Slow Andy better get things in order fast and start indicting the crooks or he will be out in short order.

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    • Not only says:

      US not only looking for the drug dealers. US looking for Belongers that are US citizens that have failed to file US IRS tax returns or have lied on their filings. Just remember Belongers, when your mama dropped you in PR, St Thomas or Florida so that when you grow you get free s**t from the US, it’s now time you pay the tax man. Many goin to travel to US one way. More Belongers in US jails soon then in the BVI. The tide has turned in the racist Belonger.

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  2. wow says:

    Another one bites the dust

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  3. YEP says:

    HERE WE GO AGAIN , / LEAVE THST WHITE LADY ALONE , ITS BLOOD MONEY ? ? ? , BUT WHAT THE HECK , ( WHAT DO I KNOW ?

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  4. I am convinced says:

    The BVI is a drug hub….Serious thing!

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  5. Noose is tightening says:

    The DEA has the BVI drug smugglers on their radar now. There will be a lot less boys with big gold chains riding their scooters around now. Too bad they can’t take out the dirty politicians as well. UK needs to do their part.

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  6. Fla. jails says:

    Soon more BVI people in their jails than in BVI!

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    • lol says:

      Lot of people can no longer travel Florida without feeling like worried. Aww well,the local islands and Santo Domingo will be the new BVI vacation hot spots. LOL….Ladies if you had a vacation plan for Miami but all of a sudden your man only want to go Santo that lets you know what he into…LOL anyone from BVI will scrutinized even more now lol

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  7. BVI says:

    WE ARE LOSING A LOT OF TALENTED YOUNG MEN TO DRUGS VIA JAIL AND/OR DEATH

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  8. And the beat goes on. says:

    When will these guys learn that there is no upside to drug dealing. Whatever gains made may be all but temporary.

    These guys in their unsophisticated dealings are low hanging fruits for the DEA. They chew them out for breakfast. They are out there doing illegal stuff and yapping to people they do not know not even realizing they are yapping to the DEA.

    As for Lans, he deserve to have the book thrown @ him. He was convicted of second degree murder, sentenced to 40, and served 25 after the governors pardon, and has waisted his second chance. He has shown he has no intention to live a law abiding life.

    With the amount of cocaine that was found to be associated with them, they can count on 20 plus years in the slammer upon conviction. Waste of their lives. They will be someone’s prison wife soon.

    Anyone thinking of getting into the trade should think twice before they do. Look at what is going on around you. If you are in the trade, try to get out. Its either that or death or a prison cell.

    Get an education guys. Stay in school, and find you a job. You don’t have to be a doctor or lawyer. You can hold a blue collar job, earn a good living to take care of yourself and family.

    Stay away from the ultimate killer of hopes, dreams, and lives: DRUGS. Be it using or selling. Stay away or be prepared to pay the price.

    We hear of so many of these cases. Makes me wonder why are so many young men in particular getting involved in the drug trade? What is the story behind their decision making?

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    • Liane says:

      There’s no “story”. It is laziness and greed, plain and simple. There are always jobs out there if they WANT to work.

      But to hold down a normal “job”, they’d actually have to get up in the morning at a decent hour, and give up wearing their pants half way down their posteriors … and well, that’s just too much to ask. So drugs it is!

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      • And the beat goes on. says:

        Well..you are probably correct in your assumption. I do think that quite often there is often something going on in someone’s life that leads them on this part.

        Was it some sort or financial hardship, loss of job, lack of family support, or as you stated laziness and greed?

        Not justifying their actions, but trying to understand it. There is always something in their path that leads them down this road.

        Whatever it is, I cannot say enough that its a very very bad choice to get into the drug trade.

        I trust no family member of mines get involved. If they do, they must understand that as far as I am concern, they will be answering to the judge without my presence, and don’t expect me to visit you in lock up. I simply don’t do jail.

        Family members best start talking or keep talking to these young men out here getting themselves caught up in drug dealings. They may not listen, but at least when they get in trouble you can say you tried to talk some sense into them.

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    • That's all says:

      Them trying to impress women

  9. red shoes says:

    wait i think after andrew scandal i think the rest of alleged drugs dealer would at least relax cool out they are not smart at all but is ok all the dark secrets coming out we will know where each and every one get there big money spending

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  10. shoho says:

    Might as well he had stay home and kept his Speedys job… now mans gonna be partying in a cell… cold world mehosn.

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  11. BVI says:

    WE NEED A BOARD SET UP TO VISIT BVISLANDERS LOCKED UP ABROAD TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE TREATED HUMANELY

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  12. Anonymous says:

    Yes. Your name is not above the law. Whether you be Stout, Fahim, Maynard or Lans.

  13. .... says:

    we see why the show off team the move so now

  14. BohicaCanada says:

    There goes Fahie’s defence fund.

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    • all of em says:

      going down one by one! You see them people who all of a sudden buying boats,buying and build house and villas “it’s all drug money “ You see all those shows and events it’s to clean the drug money. You all 80% of those local brands like for the K**true, B** R** and H*F all those are drugs businesses. NOT once any of those owners ever had the balls to denounce drugs or illegal activities. Them instead endorse the life style. Them like hiding behind of “them positive socal media post “ but who knows knows. All of the
      will be found and captured one by one. I already told and warned my daughter and my son and made it clear to don’t even contact me when s**t hits the fan

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  15. Lol says:

    Any one dealing drugs in our country and get caught should pay the price, say I think UK, USVI NEED TO GIVE THEIR GOVERNMENT AND POLICE A BIG SWEEP BECAUSE THE BIG MAN WHO THINK THAT THEY ABOUT THE LAW, JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE BIGGEST MAN IN TOLA,

  16. Energy says:

    Now now now let’s keep the same energy prayers up for my dawg #freethe captain

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  17. smh says:

    you hearing more about BVI and cocaine than Columbia and cocaine.. BVI will be popular in movies soon

  18. says:

    IBC lives on….legends never die they are reborn

  19. Anonymous says:

    It’s also WRONG for a GOVERNOR to give pardon to a KILLER, dat wat dose go ON in the VIRGIN Island of the UNITED STATES FED come And clean the VIRGIN ISLANDS NOW

  20. Not surprised says:

    With the way the BVI has mishandled foreign charterboat and tourism operations, cocaine has become the number one industry! Well… was the number one industry. How will BVI belongers pay their bills now?

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  21. Wayne DEAD says:

    Most of the comments is bitter broke and most ugly lol the trifecta. Blog away your hate it makes you feel good for a moment then back to reality. Bitter Broke and Ugly.

  22. Uh ha says:

    While it is commendable that law enforcement doing their duties.
    Who has more underhanded than the USA and UK.

  23. Just Thinking Out Loud says:

    Remember when weed was illegal in the Caribbean and America still is in cetain places black ppl was getting locked up left and right with long prison terms. Fast forward 2022 weed is legal now and white ppl and the Feds can grow pounds of weed legally sell it to black ppl, send it to the Caribbean and make millions of dollars while black ppl getting arrested and the public (black ppl) that goes alone with the Feds no conviction yet, i say no wonder black ppl can’t make it no where and was in slavery so long they can’t keep one head. Oh yeah PSA Cocaine was once legal to the war on drugs makes no sense

  24. ReX FeRaL says:

    Young Stoutt did not calculate the future cost of his drug dealing actions and alleged money laundering. Pray young man.

  25. Lardy says:

    He said Speedy was paying enough money. He wanted more money and look where more money got him. He ain’t going state prison he is going federal prison and he gonna do some years. I winder how he father and he mother taking it? Well they’ll be racking up some frequent flyer miles to Miami to go see him in jail and they’ll be putting money on he books. He left Tortola to go Miami to give up he name for a number. Well saw. Janet and Raphael is turning in their Graves. Skinny son gonna be next if they don’t kill he in Atlanta he up there boosting thinking he better and bigger then them boys.

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