Minibus driver Seon Barker of Lot 232 Independence Boulevard, Georgetown on Monday denied before Georgetown Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus a charge detailing that on June 3, 2018, at 111 Miles Potaro, Region Eight, he had in his possession 1030 grams of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.
The 41-year-old father of eight told the magistrate that he has no cause to traffic narcotics as he is gainfully self-employed as a driver of his own minibus.
Police Prosecutor Gordon Mansfield objected to bail being granted this defendant, explaining that the defendant had acknowledged ownership of the haversack in which the drugs were found.
Mansfield reported that on June 3, ranks acting on information carried out a search of a hotel room Barker was occupying, and the cannabis, wrapped in two transparent parcels, were found among the defendant’s clothing in a haversack which was in a cupboard in the room.
He noted that no one else was occupying the room with Barker.
Magistrate Isaacs-Marcus has thus remanded Barker to prison until June 15, 2018, when the case would be recalled.
