Ex-prison officer remanded to jail

Jan 31, 2017 Countryman, Features / Columnists, News

Police are most disgruntled with the advice to release two of the three persons nabbed with over 14 pounds of marijuana. Acting on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution the police were forced to release the two. The group was nabbed during a raid at a home in Fort Ordnance, East Canje on the evening of January 23, last.
Ex-prison Officer, Mikhail Henry, 27, of Lot 868 Fort Ordnance Housing at whose home the drug was discovered was charged and remanded to jail. He appeared in the Reliance Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate’s Marissa Mittleholzer on the charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
Around 20:30 hrs on January 23, the police swooped down on the premises of Mikhail Henry, a known drug dealer and conducted a search. While doing so, the officers found a red tub on a patio in the lower flat of the house, 11 bulky black plastic bags, and two white transparent bulky plastic bags.
Two other persons were also found in the house in the vicinity of the drugs—26-year-old Ryan Jameer, of Lot 669 Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme, and Henry’s child mother, Kiendra Lindie.
The bags were opened in the presence of the occupants and inside was concealed a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be marijuana.
The three were arrested, cautioned and taken into custody in the Central Police Station, New Amsterdam where the items were weighed and amounted to 7,748 grams or 14 pounds.
The two men were detained while Lindie who has a seven-month-old baby was sent on $30,000 bail.
A file was prepared and sent to the DPP for advice. It was advised that Henry be charged.
Investigators are not pleased with the advice given since the three persons were all in close proximity to the drugs on the lower flat of the house, which was being wrapped and parceled for distribution.
However, the police are not happy that despite the compelling evidence and recommendation the DPP advised that only Henry be charged.
Henry is to return to the New Amsterdam Magistrate Court on February 16.

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