Prine George Alfonso Jones, Cocaine Smuggling, New Jersey 2013

Newark, N.J– A British national has admitted his role in a cocaine smuggling conspiracy involving commercial airlines from the West Indies to England via the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Prine George Alfonso Jones, a/k/a “Prince,” 47, of Birmingham, Great Britain, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with conspiracy to import and to export cocaine in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

According to documents filed in this and related cases and statements in court, Jones was involved in an organization whose members included Nigel Roberts, a/k/a “Skang,” another British national who previously pleaded guilty to related charges.

The organization acquired cocaine in Jamaica and St. Lucia, concealed it in luggage, and provided that cocaine-filled luggage to drug couriers, who transported it by commercial airlines to Great Britain after making intermediate stops in the United States. Jones admitted to his role as a British operative of the organization who would provide transport to drug couriers and the narcotics that they smuggled.

The conspiracy charge to which Jones pleaded guilty is punishable by a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison and $1 million fine. Sentencing is scheduled for July 8, 2013.

U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Andrew M. McLees; and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Robert G. Koval, in coordination with police officers of the West Midlands Police Complex Casework Unit in Birmingham, England, for the investigation leading to today’s plea.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric W. Moran of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Trenton.

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