A 46-year-old miner of Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara, appeared on Monday at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Teriq Mohamed to answer two charges of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking, contrary to Section 5(1)(a)(i) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Act, Chapter 10:10.
Mark Ramdass pleaded not guilty to both charges and was placed on $50,000 bail for each charge. The matter was adjourned to October 28.
Reports are that at about 02:00h on Sunday morning, a Police team from Regional Division Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) proceeded to Mark Ramdass’ camp at Oku Backdam. Upon arrival, they found Ramdass asleep in his bed and according to police, ranks awoke him, and a search was conducted on the camp, during which a black plastic bag containing a bottle was found inside a pillowcase. The bottle contained several rock-like substances suspected to be cocaine, along with a number of ziplock packets containing seeds, leaves, and stems suspected to be cannabis.
The narcotics – cocaine and marijuana- were weighed, amounting to 5.4 grams of cocaine and 38.7 grams of marijuana.
