MUKESH Jagnandan, 32, of Lot 195 Fourth Street, Alexander Village, was remanded to prison, by Magistrate Allan Wilson, on a drug-trafficking charge yesterday.
He pleaded not guilty to the offence, particulars of which said, on April 5, he had 942 grammes of cannabis (marijuana) for the purpose. Defence counsel Adrian Thompson, in a failed bail application, submitted that the narcotic was not found in the apartment occupied by the defendant.
The lawyer said Jagnandan lives in the bottom flat of the building while the police retrieved the cannabis from the upper, where his uncle would, sometimes, stay.
However, Police Sergeant Gordon Mansfield, prosecuting, said some was upstairs, as well, and the defendant admitted that it belonged to him and that he uses it to smoke.
Jagnandan has to return to Court on May 23.