Two officers assigned with the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) have been sentenced to 20 years in prison each after a jury found them guilty of selling seized cocaine.
The two officers were assigned at Roberts International Airport (RIA) in Lower Margibi County.
Judge Roosevelt Z. Willie of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court in Kakata announced the sentence on Tuesday, September 29.
The officers are being identified as Special Agent Joe Logan, and Agent Lovette Flowers. They were sentenced along with a Nigerian national Tony Obi. Obi is charged with trafficking of illegal substances. He was among prisoners that masterminded the recent Kakata jailbreak.
The court ordered Obi to be deported to Nigeria after serving his 20 years term.
Prosecutors told the court that 14 plates of cocaine were seized during an operation at the airport, but Logan, and Flowers diverted four plates, and sold them on the black market.
The prosecution also said, members of the drug network paid about US$10,000 in bribes to the two LDEA officers.
The offense, a first-degree felony, carries a penalty of 10 to 20 years in prison.
Judge Willie delivered his judgment a day after the Supreme Court’s mandate was read in the Circuit Court on Monday, clearing the way for the case to conclude.
The case stems from the July 2025 arrest of Quita Dolo Kosso, who arrived at RIA from Thailand aboard a Kenya Airways flight. Court records showed how Kosso was convicted, and sentenced to five years in prison.
Another LDEA officer, Abdullah Sherrif, linked to the same operation, was sentenced to two years.
During the month-long trial, the state called four witnesses, and argued that the involvement of anti-narcotics officers made the crime more serious, as they were entrusted to detect, and combat illicit drugs.
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