Latest update June 1st, 2026 12:37 AM
Drug dealer nabbed with cocaine again
A known drug dealer who mocked the police after he was released on bail one week ago on another drug charge has been nabbed again.
The court was told that police who were on a mobile patrol noticed Gordon Bruce throwing something over the fence of his St John Street, New Amsterdam premises them make a run for it. He was pursued and nabbed and taken into custody.
The substance was retrieved and weighed and tested a found to be 7.8 grams of cocaine.
Bruce, called ‘Joe’,30, and a father of two of 18 St. John Street, New Amsterdam, appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the Sisters Magistrate’s Court, East Bank Berbice, and pleaded not guilty to the charge of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
Bail was refused and he was remanded to jail.
The man, along with two others, was caught in a house with two grams of cocaine and two grams of marijuana on January 16, last.
They were placed on $100,000 bail on the cocaine charge and $25,000 on the marijuana charge. He had reportedly mocked at the cops after bail was posted for him.
Bruce will have to return to court on February 15.
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