Charity vendor jailed on drug trafficking, wounding charges

A Charity Essequibo Coast vendor was on Monday sentenced to prison in absentia when charges of drug trafficking and wounding against him concluded before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Charity Magistrate’s Court.

Forty-year-old Roland Campbell of Charity Housing Scheme was charged with the possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and with wounding a police officer.

It is the prosecution’s case that on May 19 at around 11.15 am, acting on information, the police went to