Other marijuana planting defendant secures bail

ANTHONY Thompson, an animal cart operator of Caracas,West Canje, has been granted $150,000 bail by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo, on a charge of cultivating a prohibited plant.

The defendant was, initially, denied pre-trial freedom, having been charged with the August 26 offence in his home village.
However, following an appearance at the New Amsterdam Court, also in Berbice, on Monday, Defence Counsel Mursulene Bacchus renewed the application which secured the grant.
Thompson, who pleaded not guilty to the allegation, was jointly charged with fellow villager Terrence Waldron, who was previously sentenced to three years imprisonment after he confessed to planting cannabis sativa (marijujana).
On August 26 last, Police, acting on information, swooped on Waldron’s fenced yard and reporting finding eight marijuana plants which had a height of two feet.
Thompson has to be back in Court, for report, on December 17.

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