CANE Harvester, Anthony Permaul was ordered to post $20,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of being in possession of a narcotic, when he appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus, at the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court.According to reports, on September 2, last, the defendant was cycling along the Rose Hall Town Public Road, when, while in the vicinity of the Lucky Dollar Store, police on mobile patrol observed that he was acting suspiciously.
He was stopped and searched, during which a brown paper parcel containing half a gram of a whitish rock-like substance was unearthed in his right side pants pocket.
The case has been transferred to the Albion Magistrates’ Court for hearing on September 23.