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Zipper remanded in Campbellville cocaine bust
Andre Gomes was arraigned on charges of trafficking cocaine.
Several months after he was on placed on the wanted list of the Police Customs Anti Narcotics Unit, (CANU), Campbellville-based businessman, Andre Gomes, was yesterday arraigned on a charge of trafficking cocaine.
Gomes, called Zipper, 57, of Lot 32 Craig Street, Campbellville, Georgetown, appeared before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Magistrates’ Court in Georgetown yesterday where he pleaded not guilty to being in possession of 992 grams of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking on January 30, last.
Information released from CANU revealed that acting on information, ranks of CANU conducted an operation in Craig Street at the residence of Gomes where a quantity of narcotics (992 grams of cocaine) a quantity of cash, jewellery and other valuables were seized.
During the hearing yesterday, Attorneys-at-law Mark Waldron and Keoma Griffith applied for bail for the businessman who owns D&D Pawn Shop. Waldron told the Court that the cocaine was not found at his client’s premise but in an alleyway next to the house.
However CANU‘s, lawyer Konyo Thompson told the court that eyewitness account indicates otherwise. She noted, too, that no special reason was given to the Court for Gomes to be released on bail.
The businessman was therefore remanded to prison. Last year, CANU issued a wanted bulletin for the former murder accused and businessman (Gomes) in relation nine kilograms of cocaine found in a gas cylinder. The gas cylinder was discovered at an apartment which he rented for his 51-year- old girlfriend, Naomi Persaud.
Persaud was taken into custody with her teenage grandson. She pleaded guilty to the charges. The woman and her 17-year-old grandson were accused of being in possession of nine kilograms of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking on August 6, last at Lot 25 Delph Street, Campbellville, Georgetown. She was jailed for four years and fined $21M.
As a result of her guilty plea, the charge was dismissed against the teen.
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