Amatuk villager granted bail after denying ganja trafficking

An Amatuk villager was yesterday granted her release on $50,000 bail after denying a charge that she had cannabis for trafficking.

The lawyer for Patricia Thomas, 56, told a city court that the two spliffs that were found in the woman’s home by police could not amount to the 19 grammes she is alleged to have had and that they could have belonged to anyone else in the house.

It is alleged that on March 18, at Amatuk Landing, Potaro River, Thomas had the cannabis in her