Andrew Morgan’s bail application to High Court turned down

Demerara High Court Judge, Gino Persaud has refused to grant bail to an alleged drug trafficker, Andrew Morgan who was busted with 3.5 million worth of cocaine in his Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home on June 29 last.
Fifty-two-year-old Morgan was first arraigned and remanded to prison by Magistrate Sunil Scarce when he appeared at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrates’ Courts. Morgan pleaded guilty to the charge which stated that he had 3.278 kilograms of cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.
On his second appearance in August, he was further remanded to prison. However, his attorney, Glen Hanoman, made a bail application at the High Court arguing that the application for bail in the High Court is based on “unreasonable delay” and that the prosecution had sought an adjournment on the ground that the analyst report was not yet completed when in fact it was completed.
Hanoman has also advanced that CANU has evidential problems including establishing a nexus.
CANU prosecutor Thalia Thompson objected to bail on the basis that no special reasons were advanced or shown that warrant the ground for granting bail.
She has also argued that the matters raised by Hanoman are contentious issues of fact suitable for trial and not a bail hearing. She has also contended that there has been no delay but an argument of presumed delay in the future.
Following the arguments, Justice Persaud ruled that the evidential issues are not relevant factors to be taken into consideration for the granting of bail. He, therefore, agreed with the arguments made by the CANU prosecutor that no special reasons were put forward for bail to be considered.
The matter will continue on September 27.
It was reported that on the day in question, CANU officers acting on intelligence conducted a narcotics operation at Ixora Avenue, Eccles, East Bank Demerara, thus resulting in the discovery of a quantity of cocaine, 27 rounds of 9mm ammunition, one .32 Taurus firearm, along with one magazine, and 25 matching rounds of .32 ammunitions.
Morgan was subsequently arrested and escorted to CANU headquarters along with the firearm, ammunition, and cocaine. He was later charged. Andrew and Peter Morgan have been under CANU radar for more than two decades.
In fact, Peter Morgan was deported from the US back in 2015 after serving his time in prison on trafficking in narcotics charges. He was arrested for conspiring to import, possess and distribute five kilograms of cocaine between December 2001 and August 2003 in the United States.