Minister for overseas territories Amanda Milling will travel to the British Virgin Islands for talks after its premier appeared in a US court on charges linked to drugs trafficking. Andrew Fahie, 51, was detained in Miami on Thursday over an alleged conspiracy to import a controlled substance and money laundering in an operation led by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
The territory’s director of ports, Oleanvine Maynard, was also arrested. At a Friday hearing conducted via Zoom, assistant US attorney Frederic Shadley asked magistrate judge Jonathan Goodman to keep both Fahie and Maynard in custody prior to their trial.
Dressed in a brown prison uniform, Fahie did not speak other than to state his name, date of birth and agree for the hearing to be conducted online. A bond hearing was set for Wednesday.
