Teen remanded after Ogle drug bust

Nov 22, 2012 News

A 17-year-old girl who was caught with 1.5 kilograms of cannabis in her possession at the Ogle Airstrip appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a drug trafficking charge.
According reports, the teen was intercepted at the Ogle Airstrip while she was in the process of sending goods into an interior location.
The suspect was purportedly sending two tires into the interior for her stepfather, via the Ogle Airstrip, when she was questioned by ranks of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) about the package since the type of wheels that she was transporting into the interior could not be used there.
Further suspicion arose when the ranks handled the said articles and found that they seemed to have something “rolling around in the inside.”  Additional investigation revealed that the tyres had a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems concealed on the inside.
Attorney –At-Law Glenn Hanoman made an application for bail. The lawyer noted that the offence is not bailable except when special reason is given.
He said that his application was on the grounds that his client is a juvenile who turned 17 just last August. The lawyer, none- the -less was not in possession of his client’s birth certificate as evidence to support his statement.
CANU Special Prosecutor, Oswald Messiah, submitted that according to the Narcotics and Psychotropic Controls Act the lawyer’s application did not satisfy the grounds of special reason for bail.
Thus the teen was remanded into police custody. Her case is scheduled to be recalled on November 27, at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court.