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Brazilian Miner charged with possession of narcotics
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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