Forty-two-year-old Roxanne Lawrie, a vendor from Charity, Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) was on Tuesday charged and remanded to prison on a possession of narcotics for trafficking charge.
Remanded: Roxanne Lawrie
The charge was laid under Section 5(1ai) of the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substance Control Act, Chapter 10:10. She appeared before Magistrate Esther Sam at the Charity Magistrate’s Court and pleaded not guilty to the charge.
As such, the Prosecutor objected to bail, and the defendant was remanded to prison until October 2.
The Essequibo Coast woman was arrested on Friday following the discovery of a quantity of ecstasy during a Police operation at her home.
Police stated that ranks acting on information received, went to a house at Charity, Essequibo Coast, where a search was conducted on Lawrie.
During the search, the ranks discovered a small white plastic bottle hidden in her genitals containing 14 pink and 15 yellow tablets suspected to be ecstasy.
Lawrie was informed of the offence committed and was cautioned. In response, she told investigators, “Them tablets me got fuh headache.”
She was arrested and escorted to the Charity Police Station, where the narcotic was weighed and amounted to 12.8 grams.
