Georges Yaghmour, Cocaine Conspiracy, Vermont 2023

Georges Yaghmour, a 40-year-old man from Quebec, was sentenced to 63-months in prison for his role in an international cocaine conspiracy.

On December 6, 2023, Chief United States District Judge Geoffrey Crawford handed down the sentence after Yaghmour was found guilty of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine.

According to court records, in late 2019 Yaghmour traveled from Canada to a Burlington, Vermont, hotel where he and others met with an undercover DEA agent posing as a drug courier offering to bring cocaine from South America to Canada, through Vermont.

Court records state that during this meeting Yaghmour stated that he and his partners were prepared to pay one million dollars in exchange for the delivery of 500 kilograms of cocaine.

Eventually, other members of the conspiracy delivered more than $570,000 in partial payment for the DEA’s undercover delivery services, and DEA seized more than 300 kilograms of cocaine after it was delivered in South America for transport to Vermont.

Yaghmour is represented by Michael Cohen, Esq., of Miami. The prosecutor is Assistant United States Attorney Michael P. Drescher.

The investigation was part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation, which seeks to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the highest-level drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs, and transnational criminal organizations that threaten the United States.

United States Attorney Nikolas P. Kerest commended the outstanding work of the agents and analysts supporting this investigation from the United States Border Patrol, and the Vermont and South American offices of the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as the office of Homeland Security Investigations in Rouses Point, New York.

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