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The Jamaica Gleaner
Parish Judge Paula Blake Powell on Tuesday freed 31-year-old Rihards Upenieks from Latvia of drug charges after the prosecution agreed with submissions by defence lawyers that a viable case could not be mounted against the accused.
Upenieks was freed of charges of conspiracy, possession of cocaine, dealing and attempting to export cocaine.
He was arrested and charged in March last year at the Norman Manley International Airport while he was about to board a flight to London.
Also freed was Terica Millwood, a security checkpoint officer at the airport who was accused of not properly inspecting a package when it went on the X-ray ramp. The prosecution agreed with attorney-at-law Alexander Shaw that there was no case against her.
They were freed in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.
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