Two men have been remanded by a city magistrate after they were faced with separate charges of possession of narcotics.
Patrick Greene, 32, of Lamaha springs and Trevor Archer, appeared before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in Georgetown on Monday and were both remanded to prison until August 23.
Patrick, who is an employee of Banks DIH, denied a charge that on July 16 at a shack located at Louisa Row and Hardina Street, Georgetown, he had 348 grammes of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.
The father of one was represented by attorney-at-law Adrian Thompson, who told the court that he was informed that his client and two other men were arrested by Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers. Thompson complained to the court that his client is being wrongfully charged because the narcotics were not found in his possession. Thompson further told the court that because the three men were allegedly in the vicinity of the narcotic, then all three of them should be charged.
However, Police Prosecutor Richard Harris told the court that the CANU officers went to the shack’s location and met the three men and asked them why they were there. Harris said that the two men told the officers that Greene was selling them marijuana. The officers then searched and found the cannabis in the vicinity of the shack and Greene. A CANU operative told the court that Greene gave an oral confession to CANU when the narcotic was discovered.
Meanwhile, Archer was charged just moments after with having 6.038 grammes of cannabis, 14 grammes of methamphetamines, 32 grammes of cannabis seeds and 154 grammes of ecstasy in his possession while at Henry Street, Werk-en-Rust on July 15. He denied the charges. Prosecutor Harris told the court that CANU ranks unearthed the narcotics at a three-storey house where Archer lives.
