Devon Douglas, 27, of 67 Hunter Street, Albouystown pleaded not guilty to having 240 grammes of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking when police stopped a minibus at a roadblock at Bamia, Linden/Soesdyke Highway on Sunday.

Douglas appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Monday and his attorney Sasha Roberts asked the court to take into consideration that her client was in a minibus which was stopped and searched by police. She said that the marijuana was found in a seat where a woman was previously sitting and her client was placed to sit there by the conductor. Roberts told the court that her client only entered the bus with a water bottle.

Police Prosecutor Shellon Daniels objected to bail stating that no special reason was provided. She said that a search was conducted on a route 43 minibus which was heading to Georgetown.

Douglas, she said, was sitting in the conductor’s seat. The drugs were found in a haversack which Douglas had entered the bus with, Daniels said.

Douglas was remanded to prison and will make his next court appearance at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on January 26.