A Norton Street, Lodge, couple was yesterday charged with trafficking 151 lbs of cannabis which was allegedly found in their home.
Forty-four-year-old Marvin Glenn and 40-year-old Nicola Amanda Williams, both of Lot 42 Norton Street, Lodge, Georgetown, were placed before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. The two were jointly charged with trafficking 151 lbs of cannabis.
It is alleged that on September 2, at Norton Street, Lodge, they had in their possession, 68.808 kilogrammes of cannabis.
They were represented by attorney-at-law George Thomas who told the court that his clients share a relationship and neither of them has any previous convictions nor pending matters before any court. He said that neither of them is the owner of the house where the narcotics was found and argued that Glenn and Williams were not the only occupants at the time when the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) raided the home. According to Thomas, the couple has a young child, a 2-year-old, who had been with the mother when the arrest took place.
George said that the child is currently without her parents. Hence he was asking for reasonable bail so the patents could be with the child who was given over to a neighbour hours after being taken to the CANU headquarters.
However, police prosecutor Shellon Daniels objected to bail being granted on the grounds that the attorney hadn’t provided special reasons for bail and that regarding the child, while the parents were detained, she had been provided with necessary care. Further, the narcotics were found in the rooms of the house which were occupied by the couple.
