Drug convict charged with mailing cocaine, forging ID card

Convicted drug trafficker Dennis Jones yesterday found himself back before a city court, where he was charged with trafficking 10 grammes of cocaine and forging an identification card.

It is alleged that Jones, 62, on January 18, at the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC), trafficked 10.64 grammes of cocaine that was mailed by him. Jones, 62, was read a second charge which stated that he, between September 1 and September 30, 2016, at Georgetown, with intent to defraud, forged a Guyana identification card in the name of Josiah Jones purporting to show that it was issued by the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).

He pleaded not guilty    to both charges after they were read to him by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. Attorney Eusi Anderson, who appeared on behalf of Jones, told the court that his client