Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were each accused of being found with marijuana in the interior.
Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry denied bail to Wade Mentor and Ocie Phillips, who appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to separate charges of possession of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.
The two men pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The court heard that Mentor, a miner of Lot 4 Rainbow City, allegedly had in his possession 460 grammes of cannabis, while Phillips, of Mahdia, allegedly had in his possession 231 grammes of cannabis.
It is the prosecution’s case that on September 18, 2014, at around 3.50 pm, police on a routine stop and search
