More charges over Arcadia drugs (From Daily Echo)

More charges over Arcadia drugs

8:00am Saturday 4th July 2009 in

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CUSTOMS bosses have charged two more men in connection with 20kilos of cocaine smuggled into Southampton docks on a cruise ship.

A gang of four are already behind bars for their part in the conspiracy, having acted as couriers who had arrived in port with £1.75m of the drug on board P&O Crusies’ Arcadia.

Natalie Quinn, 26, from Rochdale, CamilleDupee, 19 from Birmingham, Briony Dyce, 25, from Birmingham and Calvin Hylton, 41, from Manchester, all pleaded guilty at a hearing in December to a joint enterprise in the importation of Class A drugs. The liner had just returned from the Carribean when HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) investigators, and UK Border Agency (UKBA) officers swooped.

The four smugglers were jailed for a total of 48 years in January 2009, subsequently reduced on appeal to a total of 42 years.

Now customs officials have charged two more men, both from Birmingham, in connection with the importation of 20 kilos of cocaine. Marlon Alexander Chambers, 30, and Claudie Shylie Anglin, 27, were arrested and interviewed in Southampton on 19 October 2008. It is alleged they were planning to meet four drugs couriers as they disembarked at Southampton docks.

Both men have been bailed to appear at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on July 14.