Six months ago, Devon Gomes, a resident of Station Street, Kitty, Georgetown, was arraigned before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrates’ Courts for the offence of trafficking in narcotics. On Thursday, December 8, the charge against him was dismissed by that Magistrate on the ground of insufficient evidence.
Gomes was represented by Attorney-at-Law Bernard Da Silva.
Guyana Times had previously reported that on April 13, ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) had arrested the driver of a minibus and five passengers after 19.593 kilograms of marijuana, valued at approximately $6 million, was discovered inside the vehicle. As a result, they were all charged and admitted to $60,000 bail.
Apart from Gomes, bus driver Nelvern Isaacs, 40, of Supply, East Bank Demerara (EBD); Mervin Reddock of Lodge Housing Scheme, Georgetown; Edward Evans of Uitvlugt Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara (WCD); Keron Tyrell of Wismar, Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice); and Mahendra Ballsarran of North East Grove, EBD had also been charged. This publication understands that Magistrate Latchman will rule on the fate of the other accused persons at a later date.
