PRISON Officer Yugesh Gossai, 24, known as ‘Scar’, of Lot 118 Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice, was remanded to prison after he was refused bail on a charge of introducing 80 grammes of cannabis sativa [marijuana] into the New Amsterdam Prison.

Additionally, the married father of two faces another charge, namely, being a prison officer, and without lawful authority, introducing to the prison a prohibited article, to wit, a cellular phone.
The defendant appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court, and denied the allegations before being remanded to prison until September 24, when the case will be heard at the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court.
Police are contending that on August 19 last, the defendant was scheduled to resume duties at 06:00hrs at the New Amsterdam Prison, but arrived minutes later.
His supervisor invited him into the lunch room, and asked him to declare his property. A parcel containing leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be portions of the hemp plant was taken from his pocket, along with his cellular phone. He was told of the offences, after which the police instituted charges.