Two couples remanded on drug charges…
ANNOLA Peters (no address given) was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined $900,900 for drug trafficking.

She was one of several defendants who faced similar charges before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton and pleaded guilty to having, on January 13, at Cheddi Jagan International Airport, trafficked one kilogramme 10 grammes of cocaine by export.

Police Sergeant Shellon Daniels, prosecuting, said the prisoner was an outgoing passenger to Jamaica when she was stopped and searched and the narcotic was found concealed in her wig.

Peters claimed her cousin offered to have her hair done and took her to a hotel where the wig was made.

She said she was unaware of what her cousin put in her head because she was not in front of a mirror.

Peters said she felt her hair bulky and when she asked, the relative told her she had put in four packs of extensions.

The convict maintained that, although the substance was on her, she did not know it was there and, after her arrest, she called the cousin but the other woman denied talking to her.

However, the cousin is in Police custody, Peters disclosed, before the magistrate advised her to think before she acts.

Adwin Barklet and his reputed wife, Samantha Daniels, of Lot 73 Lamaha Street, Georgetown, also appeared in the same Court.

They both pleaded not guilty to having, on January 17, 737 and a half grammes of cocaine for the purpose.

The Prosecutor objected to bail for them, too, relating that the narcotic was found in the home for which Barklet gave permission.

The substance was in a gas stove, said the Prosecutor, who added that Barklet claimed ownership.

Daniels was allowed $300,000 bail while Barklet was remanded to prison until April 19, the same date on which Devon Haywood, 29 and his reputed wife, Barbara Simon, 30, of Lot 66 Leopold Street and Lot 57 Cross and Leopold Streets, respectively, also in Georgetown, have to be back in Court, from remand, as well.

Haywood and Simon denied that, on January 17, they had 10 grammes of cocaine to traffick.

The Prosecutor said the drug was in a bedroom and Haywood was visiting Simon when Police conducted a raid at the home of the latter where the narcotic was unearthed.