Two men, who the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) has accused of trying to traffic cocaine, were on Friday each asked to post $300,000 bail for their release after they denied a joint narcotics charge.
Daquan Wills, 25, of 141 Meadow Brook Drive, Meadow Brook Gardens, Georgetown, and Joel Fung-A-Fat, 39, of 342 Forshaw Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, faced the charge when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court Two.
Senior Magistrate Leron Daly read the charge to the men. It states that on April 20, between Stone Avenue, Campbellville, and Church Street and Vlissengen Road, Georgetown, they trafficked 1.054 kilogrammes of cocaine. The said cocaine was intercepted at Church Street and Irring street.
Wills was represented by attorney Siand Dhurjon, while Fung-A-Fat was represented by attorney Mark Waldron. Following their client’s not guilty pleas, the two attorneys made successful bail applications.
According to CANU, the two men were intercepted on Tuesday following a CANU surveillance operation, which led the unit to believe that they had two bricks of cocaine and a quantity of cannabis in their possession.
A release from the unit said that ranks on the operation arrested Wills and Fung-A-Fat, who also has a US address, after they sped away when ranks attempted to intercept their vehicle. CANU said that the two men were in a Nissan Juke, bearing registration number PVV 6706, when they sped away from ranks, who immediately gave chase.
During the chase, the fleeing suspects allegedly threw a brick of suspected cocaine out of the vehicle’s window in the vicinity of Lance Gibbs and Irving streets, Queenstown. It was later retrieved by the pursuing ranks.
They were later apprehended and a further search was conducted at a premises in Stone Avenue, Campbellville, Georgetown, where ranks discovered another brick of cocaine and a bag containing bulk parcels of cannabis in the yard of an abandoned range house amongst some garbage.
The narcotics were retrieved and later weighed. The bricks of cocaine weighed a total of 2.102 kilogrammes, while the cannabis weighed 17.956 kilogrammes.
