GUYANESE men Tito Talo Moore, 26, of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway; Carlton Andre Lacaille, 43, of Caneville, Grove, EBD; Burkeley Levert Crawford, 24, of Mount Sinai, New Amsterdam, Berbice; and Yagpaul Bhisundial, 30, of Edinburgh

Scheme, East Bank Berbice were last Saturday each slapped with 10 charges in the Barbados District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court in connection with the discovery of a quantity of illicit drugs and a submachine pistol found on cargo vessel MV Regina, on which they were crew members on October 15, during a joint exercise by members of the Police Drug Squad, the enforcement unit of the Barbados Customs and Excise Department, and the Barbados Coast Guard, which took them to the cargo vessel, which had arrived from Guyana minutes before the search was conducted.
The charges laid against the men were for: possession of cannabis; possession with intent to supply cannabis; trafficking cannabis; importation of cannabis; possession of cocaine; possession with intent to supply cocaine; trafficking cocaine; importation of cocaine; illegal possession of a firearm and illegal importation of a firearm.
During that search, 107 packages of cannabis, weighing 101.02 kilogrammes; 20.6 kilogrammes of cocaine, and one submachine pistol were found and seized.
Initially, eight crew members of the vessel were arrested, but four were later allowed to return to the ship without being charged. They are Churma Singh, Lindon Hazel, Trevon Peters, and Anthony La Rose.