TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD Jason Isaacs, a labourer in the interior who resides at Lot 18 East Canje Berbice, appeared yesterday before Georgetown Magistrate Judy Latchman on a drug trafficking charge detailing that on April 5 at Dovo Landing, Cuyuni River, he had in his possession 198 grammes of cannabis-sativa (marijuana), for the purpose of trafficking.Isaacs pleaded not guilty to the charge, but Police Prosecutor Denero Jones informed the court that the illicit substance was found in a brown bag shoulder bag that Isaacs had in his possession.
Attorney-at-law Mr. Adrian Thompson, representing Isaacs, requested bail for his client, but Prosecutor Jones successfully opposed bail by citing that no special reasons had been given why bail should be granted.
Bail was denied, and the remanded accused will have to face the Bartica Magistrate’s Court on April 29.
