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Mother of two allegedly found with drugs in microwave

Apr 24, 2015 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

A 61-year-old Berbician woman was remanded to prison after she was charged with drug trafficking.
Donna Charles, a mother of two, who resides at Lot 4 Wapping Lane, New Amsterdam, Berbice, denied the allegation which stated that on April 22, at New Amsterdam, she had 585 grammes of cannabis in her possession for the purpose of trafficking.
It was further alleged that on the day in question, at the same location, she had 1.2 grammes of cocaine in her possession, also for the purpose of trafficking.
The prosecutor, Corporal Bharrat Mangru, related that ranks from the narcotics branch of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) acting on information, went to the home of the defendant and conducted a search. He said that the ranks found the cocaine in the woman’s living room chair and the marijuana was found in a microwave.  She was arrested and apprised of the charge.
Nevertheless, the woman’s attorney Paul Fung-A-Fat recounted a different story. The lawyer said that the police, armed with guns, were chasing two men who ran into his client’s shop. A barrel was in the shop and one of the men threw a bag on the barrel. Upon seeing the bag there, the police conducted a search and found the alleged narcotic. They then made the allegation to the woman but she denied it.
Mangru objected to bail on the ground that no special reasons were advanced by counsel. Bail was refused.
Charles will make her next court appearance on April 27, at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Courts.

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