A 60-year-old man from 1687 Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice (WCB), was, on Friday, remanded to prison by Magistrate Alisha George, after he denied being in possession of over 19 pounds of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
Lalbahadur Byjoo appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court and his next court date is July 30, 2024.
Byjoo was arrested by Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) ranks while sitting in the driver’s seat of a car at Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE). The law enforcement officers then went on to conduct a search on the vehicle and found three bulky parcels wrapped in transparent plastic in the back seat and a bulky parcel wrapped in transparent plastic in the trunk of the vehicle.
All the parcels contained a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis sativa.
Byjoo was told of the offence committed, cautioned, arrested and escorted to CANU’s headquarters. The suspected narcotic was weighed and amounted to nine kilogrammes.
