West Dem man jailed, another remanded in Canje River narco, guns and ammunition bust.

Aug 05, 2018 News

Five men, including a teenager, appeared before Magistrate Renita Singh at the Reliance Magistrate Court to answer to several charges.
Lloyd Samuels, 26, of Bagotsville, West Bank Demerara was jailed for four years each on possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and three years for cultivating a prohibited plant. He was also fined $7M.
He pleaded guilty for those charges but pleaded not guilty to being in possession of ammunition. He was placed on $200,000 bail on the latter. Damion Peters, 32, a mason of New Amsterdam, and Vickram Balgobin, 26, a chainsaw operator and father of one of Cumberland, East Canje, were both granted bail in the sum of $200,000 on each of the four charges respectively.
Kembleton Dorway, called ‘Merciless’, of Wallace Street, Cumberland, East Canje Berbice was represented by Attorney-at-law Horatio Edmonson.
In pursuit of bail for Dorway, his Attorney stated that like his son, he has no knowledge of what was discovered by the police and that he suffers from hypertension. Dorway’s son, the teen, was also slapped with four charges.
Prosecutor Althea Solomon stated that she had no objection to a substantial bail for the juvenile but asked that bail be refused for the adults.
The juvenile who was initially granted bail in the sum of $100,000 on four charges, had his bail reduced to $50,000 each after his attorney, Edmonson, stated that his mother could not afford such a sum. His father was refused bail and remanded to prison on all four charges.
They are all set to return to court on August 23, 2018.
The men and the teen were arrested following a “Joint Service Operation “at Ekura Creek, Canje River on Tuesday during which five shotguns, a pistol and three live rounds were found along with twelve kilograms of dried cannabis and a five-acre plot of cannabis cultivation.
The almost 16-hour operation commenced at 03:00h and involved 14 ranks including two Senior Officers, one from the GPF and the other from the GDF.
The team first retreated to a location at Ekura where two camps with several occupants were seen but upon seeing the ranks, the men fled into the thick vegetation and escaped, leaving behind three single barrel shotguns.
Several miles further up the creek at Wakie, Ekura, the ranks descended on two more camps with six males, one being a 15-year-old, one escaped. A search of their camps revealed a 9mm pistol with three live rounds, two single barrel shotguns , and the processed cannabis.
There was the cannabis cultivation with plants ranging from one inch to three inches in height.

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