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Crippled granny slapped with cocaine possession charge
Maxine Dax
Curious onlookers stood in astonishment yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ courtyard as a crippled elderly woman was lifted by four police ranks into the courtroom before Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry (ag) to answer to the charge of trafficking in narcotics.
The accused, Maxine Dax, 65, is reported to be an American citizen. Police had earlier in the week intercepted her with nine and a half kilo grams of the cocaine concealed in her wheelchair.
The woman who was unrepresented, stated that she “lived all her life in the United States.” Dax appeared before the magistrate sitting in a wheelchair wearing one side of her sandals.
It is alleged that on January 11, the police acting on information, intercepted a car HB 8912 on the Garden of Eden Public Road, East Bank Demerara, in which the accused was a passenger.
The police conducted a search of the vehicle and in a motorized wheelchair that the accused had in her possession, lawmen unearthed nine parcels containing rock-like substances suspected to be that of cocaine concealed in the back seat of the said chair.
Subsequent tests carried out on the substance found it to be nine and a half kilograms of cocaine.
According to Police prosecutor Lionel Harvey, Maxine Dax was told of the offence and arrested.
While in the process of explaining her presence in Guyana, the woman was interrupted by the magistrate who then asked her to give the court her address. The elderly woman stated that she resides at 61 Eastern Parkway, New York City, North America.
“I live all my life in the United States. I don’t have money; I don’t have anything…I have no clue of what is going on.”
Harvey objected to bail on the grounds of the offence committed. The prosecutor explained to the magistrate that according to the legislation, bail should only be granted in circumstances of special reason and as it is, no special cause was put to the court by the accused and of such; bail should be denied.
It was for that reason that Maxine will continue to be a guest of the State. The matter was made returnable for February 17.
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