BOSTON – Two Jamaican nationals were sentenced in federal court in Boston for their roles in an international money laundering scheme that funneled over $6 million in drug trafficking proceeds from Colombian cartels through banking systems in the U.S., Caribbean, and Europe.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Justice, St. Devon Anthony Cover, 61, received a 42-month prison sentence from U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns after being convicted in January 2025 of one count of money laundering conspiracy and seven counts of laundering monetary instruments. Dennis Raymond Rowe, 60, was sentenced to 52 months in prison by the same judge, following his January 2025 conviction on one count of money laundering conspiracy, one count of money laundering, and two counts of laundering monetary instruments. Both face deportation after serving their sentences.
The two were part of a 20-person group from Colombia, Jamaica, and Florida indicted in May 2022 for the money laundering conspiracy. The investigation resulted in the seizure of $1 million from corporate bank accounts and linked nearly 3,000 kilograms of cocaine—valued at over $90 million—to the organization. This included 1,193 kilograms seized at sea 60 miles south of Jamaica in July 2019 and 1,555 kilograms found in nine scrap metal containers at the Port of Buenaventura, Colombia, in March 2019…