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Surinamese among two remanded on drug charge

Mar 29, 2011 News

Two men, one of them a Surinamese national, were on Monday remanded to prison by Magistrate Krisendat Persaud when they appeared before him at the Springlands Magistrate’s court on the charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
The men Errol Bristol, 39, of 44 Savannah Park Housing Scheme, New Amsterdam, and Dennis Martobikromo, 33, of Nickerie, Suriname, were refused bail.
According to the prosecution the police were manning a road block around 23:30 hrs on March 23, last, at Springlands when they noticed two men in a New Amserdam-based taxi.
The men were stopped and searched and the cops unearthed what appeared to be cocaine and marijuana stashed among the men’s belongings.
They were arrested and taken to the Springlands police station where the contents were checked and weighed. It turned out that they had one kilogramme of cocaine and 220 grams of cannabis. They will have to return to court on April 8.
The police subsequently checked the home of Bristol where they unearthed almost a dozen 12 gauge shotgun rounds.  Three persons who were in the house at the time of the raid have been arrested and are in custody.

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