A 27-year-old miner was on Friday charged and remanded to prison following the discovery of 125 pounds of compressed ‘weed’ at his Third and Albert Streets, Alberttown, Georgetown house.

Tishan Heywood appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly and denied that on December 6, 2017 at Alberttown, he had 56 kilograms 700 grams of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Heywood’s attorney, Melville Duke told the court that the drug was allegedly found in his client’s yard, which is not only open to the public, but also accessible to many other persons.

However, Police Prosecutor Richard Harris told the court that Heywood was long suspected to be a drug trafficker, and that the police, during a stakeout on the day in question, saw him removing three ‘salt bags’ from a car.

They moved in just as Heywood was stashing the bags with the drugs inside a chicken pen in his yard.
He was remanded until December 22.