Sixty-three-year-old Lena Narine, also called ‘Aunty Lena’, who was busted at her Prashad Nagar home along with two others by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) last Friday was yesterday remanded to prison.
Narine, along with 54-year-old Sherlan Edmondson, a money changer and Earl Branch, 49, a handyman of Pike Street, Kitty, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus who read the charge to them. The charge alleges that on January 27th at Shantiniketan Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown, they had in their possession narcotics, that is to say 1.050 kilograms (kg) of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. They all pleaded not guilty to the charge.