Unit­ed States au­thor­i­ties have con­firmed that Ja­maican drug lord Christo­pher “Dudus” Coke, has had 17 months shaved off his prison time here.

Coke, 56, is cur­rent­ly serv­ing a 23-year sen­tence at Fort Dix Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al In­sti­tu­tion in New Jer­sey, fol­low­ing his con­vic­tion on charges of traf­fick­ing over three tonnes of mar­i­jua­na and 30 pounds of co­caine to the U.S.

His orig­i­nal re­lease date of Ju­ly 4, 2030, has now been ad­just­ed to Jan­u­ary 25, 2029, ac­cord­ing to the US Fed­er­al Bu­reau of Pris­ons (FBOP).