A Soesdyke businessman was charged yesterday over possession of 23 kilogrammes of marijuana that police allegedly found at his home.
Kurt Bharrat was remanded to prison on a charge of possession of narcotics.
It is alleged that on January 8, police conducted a search and found the narcotics at Bharrat’s home along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, who presided over the case, transferred it to the Providence Magistrates’ Court for tomorrow.
On Saturday, police said, a drug eradication operation was conducted at Swan, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, in which a field of about one acre in size with marijuana plants between four feet and eight feet in height and a nursery containing over 500 seedlings were found and destroyed. The police also searched three houses during which an unlicensed 12 gauge single-barrel shotgun with two matching cartridges and 44.5 kilograms of dried cannabis sativa (marijuana) were found.
