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Oct 17, 2015 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

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Two siblings were placed on $100,000 bail each after they were accused of escaping from police custody, where they were being investigated for narcotics possession.
Twenty-six-year old Lisa Mangru and her brother, Brian Robertson, both of Lamaha Park, Georgetown, pleaded not guilty to the charge when they appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Magistrate Fabayo Azore.
Particulars of the charge alleged that on October 15, they escaped from the Alberttown Police Station, while being in custody pending investigations into a narcotics charge.
Mangru and Robertson were also accused of having one gram of cannabis sativa (marijuana) in their possession on October, 15, at Sea Wall Road, Kitty. The siblings pleaded guilty to this charge and were ordered to pay a fine of $5,000. The duo was also instructed to serve three months community service at the Alberttown Police Station. They will make their next court appearance on October 29.
According to reports, police intercepted a car along Sea Wall Road, Kitty. The vehicle was being driven by Mangru. Robertson was a passenger in the vehicle, which had other occupants.
A search was conducted and the drug was unearthed on the defendants. While they were being escorted to the Alberttown Police Station, the suspects escaped, but were recaptured and charged.
Meanwhile, in another case, a 38 year-old interior cook was remanded to prison after she pleaded not guilty to a drug trafficking charge when she appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan.
It is alleged that on October 13, at Lot 2518 Layau Street North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, Onkia Williams had 58 grams of cannabis in her possession for the purpose of trafficking.
Williams, who was represented by Attorney Clyde Forde pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded until October 28. This matter was transferred to the Bartica Magistrates’ Court.
The lawyer made an application for his client to be granted reasonable bail. In doing so, Forde said that the drug was not found in Williams’s possession. He alleged that on the day in question, the police searched a mining camp, where his client works as a cook.
But Police Prosecutor, Corporal Deniro Jones objected to bail after stating that the lawyer had failed to provide the court with special reasons to show why his client should not be remanded.
Corporal Deniro Jones told the court that the defendant operates a shop in the interior. He said that on the day in question, the police searched the shop and found the drug concealed in brown scotch tape in the defendant’s netting.

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