Two years after he was freed of a drug trafficking charge, 49-year-old Christopher Garraway of Norton Street, Lodge, Georgetown is back in court for a similar offence – this time for allegedly trafficking $600,000 in ecstasy pills.
Remanded: Christopher Garraway
Garraway appeared on Thursday before Senior Magistrate Alex Moore at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court. He pleaded not guilty to the charge which stated that on June 14, 2022 at Number 79 Village, Corriverton, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), he had 150.7 grams of ecstasy pills in his possession for the purpose of trafficking. He was refused bail and remanded to prison until August 8 for reports.
On June 14, officers of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) and Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) conducted a joint operation at Number 79 Village, where they intercepted a motor car in which they subsequently found 400 “pinkish” ecstasy pills. As a result, the Georgetown resident was arrested. In 2020, Garraway and another man, 26-year-old Randy Chester appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on a charge of trafficking $6.5 million worth of cocaine and marijuana. While Garraway was later found not guilty, Chester was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison along with a fine of $19 million.
A quantity of ecstasy pills was found in the vehicle in which Garraway was travelling
Reports are that 22 kilograms of marijuana and 2.740 kilograms of cocaine were found on January 16, 2020, at John Fernandes Limited’s wharf, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown. The court heard that CANU had had the men under surveillance. (G1)
