Two Vincentian nationals and a Grenadian were Wednesday remanded to prison, after being charged for drug offences and violating the Emergency Powers (COVID-19) Regulations.
Vincentians Rohan Primus, of Union Island, who was allegedly kidnapped by Venezuelans in 2018, and Shaun Blake of Kingstown; along with Stephen Francis of Grand Roy, St. John, went before the Gouyave Magistrates Court on several charges.
They were caught with 379 pounds of cannabis and almost EC$5,000 in cash. The cannabis, which was seized during a raid by officers of the Drug Squad and the Coast Guard in the western shoreline community of Non-Pariel, St Mark’s, has a street value of approximately EC$900,000.
The men are charged with possession and trafficking of a controlled drug under the Drug Abuse Act; money laundering, under the Proceeds of Crime Act for Money Laundering; and violating the Emergency Powers COVID-19 Regulation by failing to remain confined to a place of residence, entering and disembarking the State without the permission of the relevant authority or Ministry of Health, and failing to quarantine by coming into Grenada after March 9.
Their next court hearing will be on May 6.
Police also confirmed that on April 20, the first day of the three-day easement of the curfew here, there were three drug busts, with one involving another Vincentian national.
One of them occurred in Gouyave where police seized ten pounds of cannabis; cocaine was confiscated in the southern St George’s community; while cash was seized in the St. David area.
