TWO East Canje youths had their guilty pleas changed on Monday, after they explained that the quarter-gramme of narcotic police found at a home did not belong to them.Nineteen-year-old Mustate Amad and Jagdish Jamat appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the New Amsterdam Court, also in Berbice, where they were put on $10,000 bail each.
Police had charged the duo with having leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis(marijuana) on January 25, at West Canefield.
But Jamat informed the court that following the police officers’ visit to his home, they did not tell him that they found anything until the morning before he was charged.
Asked by the Court why he pleaded guilty, Amad said he did not want to be victimised by anyone.
It was then the Magistrate changed the defendants’ pleas, and transferred the case to Reliance Court for March 19.