A 20-year-old Charlestown resident was on Wednesday charged for smuggling cannabis in two cheese stick packets into the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court (GMC) lock-ups.

Tia Gittens, a mother of one, appeared before City Magistrate Fabayo Azore and denied that on January 29 at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court lock-ups, she smuggled 6.3 grams of cannabis into the prisoners’ cell.

According to reports on the day in question, Gittens was seen with a black plastic bag with the items inside, under the pretence that she was taking a care package for her child’s father Steve Howard, who is on remand for the murder of 56-year-old Fizal Shaheed.
The ranks searched the package and found the drugs inside the two cheese stick packs. Gittens attempted to run out of the court compound but was nabbed by the police.
The magistrate released Gittens on $25,000 bail and adjourned the matter until February 28.

Last week, 29-year-old Bourda mechanic Leon Smart also appeared before Magistrate Azore for attempting to smuggle contraband to two murder accused in the court’s police outpost.

Smart was busted on January 22 at the GMC by alert police officers as he had prohibited items such as two packs of cigarettes along with a bottle of vodka in a Sprite bottle, intended for remand prisoners Calvin Johnson and Joshua Meredith. He is currently out on $25,000 bail.