DOREEN Azeez, of 185 Pike Street, and Donald Ramsammy, of 55 David Street, both Kitty, Georgetown addresses, appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday, charged with possession of a utensil to smoke cocaine.

The duo pleaded not guilty, denying that on September 1, they had an improvised glass pipe used for the purpose.

Police Sergeant Shellon Daniels, prosecuting, said the defendants were found in a Pike Street ‘drugs yard’, but they were granted $25,000 bail each until January 14, 2010.

Another defendant on a drug charge, Rohan Dossi, 28, of Leguan, Essequibo, made his appearance in front of Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson

The allegation against him are that on August 29, at Parika Public Road, East Bank Essequibo, he had 10 grammes of cannabis (marijuana) as well as nine grammes of cocaine for trafficking.

On an application by attorney-at-law, Mr. James Bond, who said the defendant’s father died recently and he has his elderly mother to care for, Dossi, alias ‘Snow White’, was put on $40,000 bail in the possession case, but was remanded to prison on the trafficking charge.

He has to be back in Court on September 8.