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Prisoner awaiting trial for murder found with ganja in jail
A man who is in prison since 2007 on a charge of murder, and who was committed to stand trial in the high court, in 2012 was nabbed with a quantity of marijuana. He was said to be a drug dealer in jail.
Andy Adams, 23, of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, was incarcerated along with another man who has since being killed in a prison brawl, for the July 20, 2007murder of Nizamudeen Khan, a security guard attached to a Rosignol sawmill.
Adams who was injured in that brawl has developed a reputation of being a ring leader.
According to prosecutor Sergeant Phillip Sheriff, Tuesday February 26, Adams had in his possession 66 grams of cannabis sativa.
The man was seen acting in a suspicious manner and was challenged and searched by an alert prison officer who discovered the drug.
He was subsequently charged.
In court he pleaded not guilty and will have to return to court on May 31.
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