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Brazilian Miner charged with possession of narcotics

Jun 17, 2012 News

 

Forty –eight- year- old  Brazilian  gold miner, Jose  Azaury  Maciel, of  Sao  Paulo , Brazil, appeared  in the  Bartica Magistrate’s Court on  Thursday before  Magistrate Haywant  Ramdhani  to  answer  to  the  charge  of  illegal  possession  of  narcotics  for  the  purpose  of  trafficking.
On  Wednesday  June 13, last,  around 23:30  hours  a  party of policemen  from  the  Bartica  Police  Station  were  on  mobile patrol  duties  at  the  junction  of  Fifth  Street and  Second  Avenue , when  they  observed  the  defendant  acting  in  a  suspicious  manner .
He  was stopped  and  a  search  was  conducted  by  the  Police who  discovered  eight  pieces  of a white  rock-like  substances  suspected  to  be  cocaine  in  his  left trousers  pocket.
He was escorted to the Bartica   Police Station, where he was processed. He  appeared in  Court  the  next  day and  entered  a  not  guilty  plea  when  the  charge was  read  to  him.
The magistrate denied  bail on  the  grounds  that  a  fixed  address cannot  be  furnished  by  the  Defendant.
Maciel was remanded to prison until July 20. (Edward A Persaud)

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