A 38-YEAR-OLD Soesdyke businesswoman, who escaped from the Timehri Police Station after being arrested for allegedly trafficking marijuana and the sale of unlicensed liquor, was on Tuesday charged.

Shanaz Mohammed of Back Road, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus and denied the three charges.
Particulars of the first charge alleged that on May 6 at Soesdyke she had 478 grammes of cannabis in her possession for the purpose of trafficking.

It is further alleged that on the same day she sold and offered for sale rum without having a liquor licence.
The court further heard that on May 8 when she was taken to the Timehri Police Station on the two criminal charges she escaped from police custody.
The woman’s attorney Stanley Moore told the court, that his client was the mother of four and the drugs were not found in her possession.

According to police prosecutor Gordon Mansfield on the day in question ranks from the Timehri Police Station acting on information went to Mohammed’s home.
Mansfield noted that the drugs were found in a black plastic bag which was hidden behind a freezer in the living room.

During the search the ranks noticed a quantity of liquor and inquired if she had a licence for the sale of the rum but the woman did not have the documents.
And, when Mohammed was arrested and taken to the police station at Timehri on May 6, she escaped two days later. She was rearrested recently.

Magistrate Isaac-Marcus remanded Mohammed to prison on the drug trafficking and escaping from police custody charges, but on the charge of selling the liquor without a licence, she was granted bail in the sum of $70,000.

Mohamed will remain jailed until her next court appearance on June 19.