Lawyers for Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan, who is facing three drug indictments in the US, yesterday told a Trinidad court that they have received new information in connection with the case and asked the court to adjourn the matter to tomorrow.
Morgan made another court appearance yesterday at which time his attorneys were to make a bail application for his release. However, one of the man’s lawyers, Ravi Rajcoomar, told the court that he had received new information and needed to study it. As such, he asked the court to adjourn the matter until tomorrow.
Head of the T&T Central Authority Unit (CAU) in the Ministry of the Attorney General, attorney David West who is the prosecutor in the matter had no objection to the adjournment.
Morgan, facing three counts of conspiracy to traffic cocaine into the US, last week Monday appeared in a Trinidad court and was refused bail. Trinidadian authorities told the court last week that the Guyanese was a primary supplier of cocaine to Trinidad, Barbados, St Maarten and Canada.
West alleged last week that between October 2001 and 2003, Morgan trafficked in between 15 kilos and 100 kilos of cocaine to the four countries and the US.
The Oleander Gardens resident was nabbed on a provisional arrest warrant by US drug agents working with Trinidad authorities at Piarco International Airport, just days after an indictment was unsealed in a New York court charging him with three counts of drug conspiracy. Trinidadian authorities said that they are awaiting certain documentation from the US Government before the process of extraditing Morgan commences. West said that the Guyanese was a flight risk and opposed bail.
According to the provisional warrant, between October 1, 2001 and August 31, 2003, Morgan allegedly knowingly and intentionally conspired with David Narine, Susan Narine, Hung Fung Mar and persons unknown to import cocaine. During the same period, Morgan also allegedly imported cocaine into the US.
Guyana’s Attorney- General Doodnauth Singh told reporters last week that Morgan is likely one of the 14 Guyanese the US Govern-ment had indicated it wanted to extradite two years ago to face drug trafficking charges.
