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Barry Dataram’s ex-wife among four in ganja bust
Sheleza Khan, the former wife of self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram, was remanded to prison
Sheleza Khan
after she was accused of trafficking over 150 pounds of marijuana, when she appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.
However, the 34-year-old housewife who resides at Versailles, West Coast Demerara, is not facing the charge alone. Felicia Laundry, 28, of Evergreen Street, New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara; Balkisson Ramdass, 54, and his reputed wife, Andrea Puran, were also indicted.
Dataram’s ex-wife gained notoriety in December 2007 when she and her three-year-old daughter were kidnapped by two Venezuelans, one of whom was subsequently shot dead by police.
It is alleged that between June 7 and June 9 at Roraima Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara; they had close to 77 kilograms of cannabis sativa (marijuana) in their possession for the purpose of trafficking.
The quartet denied the allegation which was read to them in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
In addition, Ramdass was charged separately for aiding persons known and unknown to traffic narcotic between June 7 and June 9 at the address mentioned in the first charge. He denied the charge.
According to reports, Custom Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) ranks acting on a tip-off went to a premise located in Roraima Housing Scheme and conducted a search. The illicit drug was seized and the four defendants were arrested.
They were all represented by Attorney-at-law Mark Waldron. Waldron told the court that Ramdass is a businessman and resides at a house in Roraima Housing Scheme with his reputed wife and their three children.
They were all remanded at the end of the court hearing and the matter was transferred to the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court for June 24.
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