GORDON Allen, a deportee from the United States (U.S.) was remanded to prison yesterday on a drug-trafficking charge. The 48-year-old defendant pleaded not guilty to two charges before Magistrate Ann McLennan.
Particulars of one said on Thursday, December 12, at Orange Walk and Regent Street, Georgetown, he had 17 grammes of cannabis sativa (marijuana) for the purpose of trafficking.
The second charge alleged that, the same day, also at Orange Walk and Regent Street, he had possession of one gramme cocaine also to traffick.
Police Corporal Dinero Jones, prosecuting, said the defendant was observed around the Bourda Market area sitting on the pavement and was being frequently approached by different persons.
The prosecutor said Allen was seen going into his pocket and taking out a black plastic bag which contained something that he was giving persons and a search of his person yielded weeds, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis and a creamish rock-like substance suspected to be cocaine.
Allen (no address given) admitted he had been deported from the U.S. but said he is awaiting time to return. Meanwhile, he has no fixed place of abode and has been living on the streets.
He was refused bail and the cases were transferred to Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry for January 6, 2014.

(Geeta Rampersaud)