Businessman Keith King yesterday became the third person to be charged with drug trafficking over the 359.8 kilos of cocaine found in a container that was due to be shipped to the Netherlands.
King, 46, of Lot 12 Bel Air, was remanded to prison after he denied the charge of narcotics trafficking that was read to him by Magistrate Alan Wilson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
It is alleged that between January 25 and February 20, at Houston, East Bank Demerara, he procured Ramnauth Rago to transport six pieces of lumber from Grove to Soesdyke, which were found to contain 359.803 kilogrammes–equivalent to 791.643 pounds–of cocaine.
King was represented by attorney Glenn Hanoman, who asked that his client be granted bail in a reasonable sum,