BERMUDA, — A New Orleans brass band musician detained in Bermuda has pled guilty to money laundering charges according to a CBS correspondent in Bermuda reporting for the Bermuda Broadcasting Company.
Last April, Thaddeus Ramsey, 29, visited the island with the Big 6 Brass Band to perform at the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts.
Ramsey and another man, Merrill Boyd were stopped by authorities at Bermuda’s airport over concerns about them allegedly carrying $29,000 in cash.
Both Ramsey and Boyd were detained and later released on bond but authorities there said they deemed them a flight risk and confiscated their passports, preventing them from returning to New Orleans, and trapping the men on the island for a year. Ramsey’s cousin, Walter Ramsey of The Stooges, says his cousin has been living in the back of a church ever since.
On Monday, according to our CBS correspondent, a Magistrate judge revoked the men’s bond and ordered them back to court where they changed their plea to guilty on the money laundering charges.
Ramsey and Boyd will remain in Bermuda until their sentencing hearing on June 24.
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